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

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

Kent West wrote:

> kenn wrote:
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> > Kent West wrote:
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> > > kenn wrote:
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> > > > Kent West wrote:
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> > > > > kenn wrote:   
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> > > > > > I have a Debian server that does not complete its boot ... early 
> > > > > > on, it
> > > Maybe rename the rc[whatever]. directory so no services/daemons start
> > > up, and reboot normally, and go from there?   
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> > 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 ... 
Sorry; these are two separate things: using ldd to track down the 
dependencies, and renaming /etc/rcX.d to prevent startup scripts from 
running.

Although, now that I've had some time for the symptoms to sink in, I'm 
thinking that running ldd against your [e]grep binaries might be more 
enlightening:

westk[@westek]:/home/westk:> which grep
/bin/grep


Wed Mar 01     11:36:31
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westk[@westek]:/home/westk:> which egrep
/bin/egrep

Wed Mar 01     11:36:33
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westk[@westek]:/home/westk:> ldd /bin/grep
       linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0xffffe000)
       libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/libc.so.6 (0xb7ea0000)
       /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7fea000)

Wed Mar 01     11:36:48
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westk[@westek]:/home/westk:> ldd /bin/egrep
       not a dynamic executable

Wed Mar 01     11:37:02
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westk[@westek]:/home/westk:> ls -l /bin/egrep
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 33 2005-11-09 17:07 /bin/egrep

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Kent