Re: Need help recovering Debian that won't boot.

[kenn <kenn@printussery.com>]

Kent West wrote:
> kenn wrote:
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>> Kent West wrote:
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>>> kenn wrote:
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>>>> Greetings.
>>>>
>>>> I have a Debian server that does not complete its boot ... early on, it

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> Try mounting the partitions -- "mount -a". You may need to remount / in
> rw mode if you need to make changes to the file system; let's see if I
> can remember:
>    mount -o remount,rw /
> should do it.
> 
> Now does "ls" work?
> 
> What's the output of "which ls"?
> What's the output of "ldd [path_to]ls"?
> 
> Maybe rename the rc[whatever]. directory so no services/daemons start
> up, and reboot normally, and go from there?
> 

After mounting, I still get the segmentation fault on "ls" ... "which
ls" points to "/bin/ls" and "ldd /bin/ls" results in several lines, none
of which contain "rc"  so I may not be understanding you there ...

Thanks once again.