I lost /bin

[Albert Schlef]

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://pastebin.com/, so I see what I need to
restore, I'll be extremely thankful!

 

[Joel VanderWerf]

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://pastebin.com/, so I see what I need to
restore, I'll be extremely thankful!

http://pastebin.com/m6c9a3f7

 

[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.

 

[Joel VanderWerf]

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.

 

[Albert Schlef]

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!

 

[Vidar Hokstad]

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/b0f6e6d80da01121

Vidar

 

[Marc Heiler]

This taught you

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

 

[Robert Dober]

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 .....