From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 7 17:21:06 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 178E916A4CE for ; Fri, 7 Jan 2005 17:21:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: from lorna.circlesquared.com (host217-45-219-85.in-addr.btopenworld.com [217.45.219.85]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A91B43D48 for ; Fri, 7 Jan 2005 17:21:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from peter@circlesquared.com) Received: from localhost.circlesquared.com (localhost.circlesquared.com [127.0.0.1])j07HKxKa098338; Fri, 7 Jan 2005 17:20:59 GMT (envelope-from peter@circlesquared.com) From: Peter Risdon To: Marty Landman 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> <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> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005 17:20:59 +0000 Message-Id: <1105118459.708.180.camel@lorna.circlesquared.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.3 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: clearing space X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005 17:21:06 -0000 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.