Base System Rebuild

[ETHAN HOUSE (RIT Student)]

http://pastebin.com/LcCXcjq6

Not sure if I am making a newb mistake. This would be my first worldbuild.

I confirmed I was on the 9.2 source tree.

Ethan House


On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 12:28 AM, Erich Dollansky <
erichsfreebsdlist at alogt.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Tue, 10 Dec 2013 00:21:32 -0800
> "ETHAN HOUSE (RIT Student)" <ewh2048 at rit.edu> wrote:
>
> > I have a working root shell. sshd still seems to work fine, for now
> > atleast.
>
> so, download the sources. Isn't 9.2 also the current version of the 9
> branch? If not, download the 9.2 release sources and compile them.
>
> It should always work out to download and compile the sources. If the
> version is identical, you should not need the mergemaster step but this
> could also create other problems. Root should always work afterwards.
> At least it did for me.
>
> Erich
> >
> > Ethan House
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 12:16 AM, Erich Dollansky <
> > erichsfreebsdlist at alogt.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > On Mon, 09 Dec 2013 23:57:53 -0800
> > > Ethan House <ewh2048 at rit.edu> wrote:
> > >
> > > > I inherited a FreeBSD 9.2 machine in pretty bad shape. The base
> > > > system seems to be all out of whack with missing libraries all
> > > > over the place. A reinstall of the OS is not an option as I am
> > > > many states away from the box in question. Having no idea what
> > > > caused this what is the best way to fix this?
> > >
> > > how can you connect to the machine?
> > >
> > > If you have any chance to copy files to it as root, I would build a
> > > 9.2-system on a machine at hand and then copy the files to the
> > > affected machine until a normal log-in is possible.
> > >
> > > It should then be possible to download the 9.2 sources and compile a
> > > new system locally.
> > >
> > > Erich
> > >
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