Hi, On Tue, 2 Oct 2012 06:20:45 -0400 Rod Person <rodper...@rodperson.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Oct 2012 08:02:54 +0200 > Polytropon <free...@edvax.de> wrote: > > > On Mon, 1 Oct 2012 20:08:29 -0400, Rod Person wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > > > > I was attempting to update ports that used libogg with the command > > > > > > portmaster -d -y -r libogg > > > > > > I went away and came back some hours later and some updates had > > > failed. Now my shell segfaults on any command such as ls, clear or > > > su I tried to login on another console as root and after giving > > > the password it just goes back to login. I am at a loss as to > > > what to do to fix this one. > > > > That sounds like a really weird problem. FreeBSD and the > > ports (which portmaster deals with) are separated systems, > > so even if you totally hose your ports, the OS should not > > be affected. > > I'm well aware of this, and is also why I no clue what could have > happened. It would never have occured to me that updating a port that > has to do with audio and video containers would totally leave me > unable to login into my system or issue and shell commands without > getting a segmentation fault. the ports did nothing of this sort. > > I did discover that my / file system had run out of space -131MB. > Ah, all red lights are on now. > 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. > You ave now 25GB free on /? More red lights are on now. > 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. What partitioning schema do you have? Could it be that you simply filled the file system and FreeBSD does not find any space even just for a restart? Erich _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
