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I lost /bin

Albert Schlef

5/22/2008 6:09:00 AM

I was compiling the 'fxruby' gem....

I was doing everything 'sudo', and I was messing with its Makefile
(because it didn't compile cleanly),

ANYWAY,

the 'fxruby' gem is now installed succesfully.

The bad news is that somehow my '/bin' folder got deleted.

If anybody here is using *Ubuntu* and is willing to do 'ls /bin' and
paste the results to http://pas..., so I see what I need to
restore, I'll be extremely thankful!
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7 Answers

Joel VanderWerf

5/22/2008 6:26:00 AM

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Albert Schlef wrote:
> The bad news is that somehow my '/bin' folder got deleted.
>
> If anybody here is using *Ubuntu* and is willing to do 'ls /bin' and
> paste the results to http://pas..., so I see what I need to
> restore, I'll be extremely thankful!

http://pas...m6c9a3f7

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Gregg Kang

5/22/2008 6:34:00 AM

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Albert - you are probably going to encounter unrecoverable damage if
you have lost /bin. Even the default shell for root (/bin/sh) is in
the directory that you lost.

Joel VanderWerf

5/22/2008 6:46:00 AM

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Gregg Kang wrote:
> Albert - you are probably going to encounter unrecoverable damage if
> you have lost /bin. Even the default shell for root (/bin/sh) is in
> the directory that you lost.

Maybe he can boot from an ubuntu cd and copy stuff over.

Hey, first time I've ever used pastebin, and it was to paste bin. I feel
special.

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Albert Schlef

5/22/2008 9:06:00 AM

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YEEEEEEEEEEEHHHHHHAAAAAAA!!!

I did it! I'm back! :-)

Joel, thanks! (I couldn't find my ubuntu cd.)

Gregg Kang
> Albert - you are probably going to encounter unrecoverable damage if
> you have lost /bin. Even the default shell for root (/bin/sh) is in
> the directory that you lost.

I lost 'cp' and 'rm' too. Fortunately for me, I had gazillions of
terminals open with Midnight Commander. I copied the most basic commands
from an old Fedora partition that was mounted (it's always mounted, so I
didn't have to have 'mount'). Its 'bash' didn't work on my ubuntu (it
was compiled against termcap), so I logged in to where my website is
hosted, becuase it uses Debian, and taken 'bash' (which serves as 'sh'
too) from there.

I restored enough commands so that my 'apt-get' worked again.

Then, to find out all the packages that had files installed in /bin/ I
did "dpkg -S '/bin/*'". I reinstalled them all with "sudo apt-get -y
--reinstall install ...".

That's all. My system even survived a reboot!

It was so invigorating an experience! So empowering! I recommend
deleting your /bin once in a while (or, alternatively, installing
'fxruby') for sport.

>
> first time I've ever used pastebin, and it was to paste bin

LOL!
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Vidar Hokstad

5/22/2008 6:05:00 PM

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On May 22, 10:05 am, Albert Schlef <albertsch...@gmail.com> wrote:
> YEEEEEEEEEEEHHHHHHAAAAAAA!!!
>
> I did it! I'm back! :-)
[...]
> I lost 'cp' and 'rm' too. Fortunately for me, I had gazillions of
> terminals open with Midnight Commander. I copied the most basic commands
> from an old Fedora partition that was mounted (it's always mounted, so I
> didn't have to have 'mount'). Its 'bash' didn't work on my ubuntu (it
> was compiled against termcap), so I logged in to where my website is
> hosted, becuase it uses Debian, and taken 'bash' (which serves as 'sh'
> too) from there.

Now that you have successfully recovered is the time to read this
classic: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.dcom.telecom/msg/b0f6e6...

Vidar

Marc Heiler

5/22/2008 7:19:00 PM

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This taught you ;)

Always keep copies of the fundamental commands to restore a f*cked up
system!
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Robert Dober

5/23/2008 6:17:00 PM

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On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 8:46 AM, Joel VanderWerf
<vjoel@path.berkeley.edu> wrote:
> Gregg Kang wrote:
>>
>> Albert - you are probably going to encounter unrecoverable damage if
>> you have lost /bin. Even the default shell for root (/bin/sh) is in
>> the directory that you lost.
>
> Maybe he can boot from an ubuntu cd and copy stuff over.
>
> Hey, first time I've ever used pastebin, and it was to paste bin. I feel
> special.
I need I site call pinoint to say how you did that well;)
BTW you are special, I am special, we all are special, ahem .....
>
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> vjoel : Joel VanderWerf : path berkeley edu : 510 665 3407
>
>



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