On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 09:49:47PM +0000, j j wrote: > On 6/21/07, Bob McGowan <rmcgowan@veritas.com > wrote: > > Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 08:54:30PM -0400, j j wrote: > >> Hello > >> > >> I have been have trouble with my debian box(64 studio). i just > discovered that > >> /etc directory is missing. I dont think i deleted it, but it seems that > I must > >> have. > > > > Perhaps not. > > > > Things to look at: > > > > - you haven't mounted something on /etc, have you? Although insanely > > stupid, pls don't be offended. When weird things happen, it's time to > > be insanely paranoid... (/proc/mounts should tell) > > > > - You haven't chroot'ed yourself, have you? (I know. Paranoia...) > > > > - Anything in the system logs? (things like re-mounting read-only or > > filesystem corruption would be very interesting...) > > > > I am surprised that you don't mention any other problems - if /etc/ was > > really really gone, I'd expect loads of other problems. Hence the > > somewhat paranoid checks... > > Not least of which would be no password file, hence no way to log > in. Plus, no rc scripts to bring the system up, either. So, I'd suggest > the system has booted into some sort of maintencance mode. Or, you're > simply in maintenance mode for some other reason, running from some sort of > RAM disk? > > More info is needed, as printed during the startup, particularly just > before the point where you get a shell prompt. > > where do find all that is printed before i get a shell prompt? > /var/log/? > jj Please don't top-post. For the current kernel instance: # dmesg | less will catch the last 8k (or so) messages... Debian normally saves that in /var/log/dmesg. This only covers from boot to start of sysklogd - stuff after that goes go syslog and is governed by your syslog configuration - normally /var/log/syslog. But if you're missing /etc, then all bets are off... -- Karl E. Jorgensen karl@jorgensen.org.uk http://www.jorgensen.org.uk/ karl@jorgensen.com http://karl.jorgensen.com ==== Today's fortune: If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
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