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Date:      Mon, 1 Oct 2012 10:48:39 +0000 (UTC)
From:      jb <jb.1234abcd@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Port update hosed entire system
Message-ID:  <loom.20121001T124342-469@post.gmane.org>
References:  <20121001200829.2c8afade@atomizer64> <20121001080254.46572b2e.freebsd@edvax.de> <20121002062045.020b8237@atomizer64>

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Rod Person <rodperson <at> rodperson.com> writes:

> ... 
> I'm still able to issue sudo, so using sudo rm -r I was able to free up
> 25GB...but still, /bin/sh, ls, clear all seg fault and su doesn't work
> and switching consoles doesn't let me log in.
> 
> I maybe be left with attempting a single user boot, but I'm still not
> that comfortable at attempting such as I don't want to have a totally
> useless box.
> 

Well, in emergency:
- add /rescue/sh to /etc/shells
  Anything in /rescue/ is statically compiled.
- change "root" shell to /rescue/sh
  vipw

jb







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