Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005 17:20:59 +0000 From: Peter Risdon <peter@circlesquared.com> To: Marty Landman <MLandman@face2interface.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: clearing space Message-ID: <1105118459.708.180.camel@lorna.circlesquared.com> In-Reply-To: <6.2.0.14.0.20050107115026.03103bd0@mail.face2interface.com> References: <6.2.0.14.0.20050106184116.01f2aa80@mail.face2interface.com> <20050107053638.GE27020@turingmachine.mentalsiege.net> <6.2.0.14.0.20050107074632.03093500@mail.face2interface.com> <1105103142.708.136.camel@lorna.circlesquared.com> <bc5b6385050107055571c9dd2b@mail.gmail.com> <6.2.0.14.0.20050107091811.01f21c78@mail.face2interface.com> <1105108254.708.141.camel@lorna.circlesquared.com> <6.2.0.14.0.20050107094403.030a3d38@mail.face2interface.com> <1105110920.708.152.camel@lorna.circlesquared.com> <6.2.0.14.0.20050107102842.01f00398@mail.face2interface.com> <1105115565.708.165.camel@lorna.circlesquared.com> <6.2.0.14.0.20050107115026.03103bd0@mail.face2interface.com>
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On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 11:59 -0500, Marty Landman wrote: > At 11:32 AM 1/7/2005, Peter Risdon wrote: > >On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 10:41 -0500, Marty Landman wrote: > > > > > > > > This has become a problem. Took a working keyboard from another box and it > > > won't work. Unless by some weird chance I should reboot first. > > > > > > >This happens, but don't just reboot. > > Peter, are you saying that it's possible my keyboard isn't working because > the console hasn't been used for a very long time? If so, why isn't > rebooting the easiest thing to do? Sort of. Sometimes, not often, just plugging a ps2 keyboard into a running machine won't work. It's also capable, even more rarely, of damaging the motherboard. [...] > > >No - you ought to be able to su to root still. > > But how? > > %su - > Password: > su: no directory > % I still have the machine on which I moved /root available and here's what happens: -bash-2.05b$ ls / COPYRIGHT dev kernel.GENERIC nonexistent stand bin dist kernel.old proc sys boot etc mnt razor-agent.log tmp cdrom home modules sbin usr compat kernel modules.old service var -bash-2.05b$ su Password: %ls / .cshrc compat kernel.GENERIC proc tmp .profile dev kernel.old razor-agent.log usr COPYRIGHT dist mnt sbin var bin etc modules service boot home modules.old stand cdrom kernel nonexistent sys %pwd /usr/home/peter % One thing that does occur to me: what is your user's shell and, if it isn't bash, do you have bash installed? And have you changed the root shell from csh? I suspect the latter. [...] > >If you can boot onto a FreeBSD CDROM it'd be easy to fix this. Can you? > > I still have the 4.8 mini-iso the system was installed with. But I need the > console to do this right? Any way I can be sure that the ps2 port/mobo > isn't what's really shot? Or does it even matter? The keyboard will almost certainly work after a reboot. If not, you've got other worries with that machine anyway. You can get a shell with root privileges from sysinstall and make your link. Move /sbin back, though. This was a bad thing to relocate. Peter.
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