Re: Any suggestions for reviving a hosed bash?

[Sven LUTHER <luther@maxime.u-strasbg.fr>]

On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 12:44:14PM -0800, Rob Clark wrote:
> Is there a recommended way to recover?  I have been poking around on my
> root filesystem by passing init=... args to the kernel  (ie init=/bin/ls
> -F /bin /sbin) and have come the the conclusion that bash is the only
> shell on the root fs.  (There is /bin/csh which is a symlink to a
> symlink to /usr/bin/tcsh, but /usr is a seperate fs.)  I don't think
> there is any way to recover without having a shell... because the root
> fs is still mounted read-only, it would take at least two commands to
> replace bash, but you only get one by using init=... .
> 
> I am running out of ideas to try... any suggestions?

What i did was just copy the older libreadline2g from an older partition, maybe you
could try it with the ones from the ramdisks, then you reboot normally and all
works fine, then you upgrade bash, check it, and reupgrade libreadlineg2, ignoring
the fact that dpkg tells you it is already installed ...

what about adding a depends : bash (new version) to the new libreadlineg2 or
something like that, that will not let you install stuff that breaks our system ?
or maybe a conflicts . bash (old version) ? 

Friendly,

Sven LUTHER