Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2013 16:35:21 -0400 From: Tuc <ml@t-b-o-h.net> To: <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Botched 7->8 upgrade, thoughts how to =?UTF-8?Q?recover=3F?= Message-ID: <9e3c6c0c1a72dd9c7977103e891e77b1@vjofn.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com>
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Hi, Figured this might be a bit more than -questions worthy... I was following some instructions online about upgrading 7 to 8... And... Well... Something went horribly wrong during "make installworld". I lost my ssh session (Mistake 1 - Console dummy!) and now in multiuser I can't log in. I logged in single user and commands are iffy about working. "ls" is fine, but "ls -l" coredumps. I tried to redo the installworld, but it seems to get somewhere in libc man pages and then quits. Could be that "ln" is screwed. Any thoughts on how to recover? I did an rsync of the system elsewhere beforehand, so if it works I probably could just get it all back that way. I was HOPING to go forward to 8. Is there some way I can do the equiv of a "make installworld&&make installkernel" off some media so I don't overwrite config, password, group, etc. Thanks, Tuc
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