Re: exec: 426: chroot: not found

[Lourens Steenkamp <lourens@dorje.co.za>]

Lourens replying to bob@proulx.com (Bob Proulx) wrote:

>  Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
>  > Lourens Steenkamp <lourens@dorje.co.za> writes:
>  > > I decide (dangerous move ...) that it had something to do with
>  > > the link mentioned above so I move the
>  > > /emul/ia32-linux/lib/ld-linux.so.2 link to something else and did
>  > > the ln -s /var/chroot/sid-ia32/lib/ld-2.3.2.so ld-linux.so.2
>  > > thing folowed by a ldconfig - no change in OO. I then deleted the
>  > > newly created ld-linux.so link and tried to mv the previously
>  > > moved link back - I found that I could not exec anything in/bin!
>  > 
>  > You must have deleted the 64bit ld.
>  
>  It does look like that.  You can check from knoppix.  If so then
>  restoring that file should get you running again.  You can extract it
>  from the deb on another machine.
>  

Yes!

Thanks Bob and Goswin.

I always save a copy of anything I change so it was simple to restore it
- once I knew what to do.

Lesson learned - do not mess with anything, no matter how exciting, when
you should be sleeping...

Thanks guys.


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