Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 00:21:32 -0800 From: "ETHAN HOUSE (RIT Student)" <ewh2048@rit.edu> To: Erich Dollansky <erichsfreebsdlist@alogt.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Base System Rebuild Message-ID: <CAFRryZgTHHJrkg2iU9FWinjKhWZbUGtqANK-G7nxLQ3fGn0s_g@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20131210161620.667c1591@X220.alogt.com> References: <CAFRryZg9GwSWLB3ytdpmVgrfnp4T0i6b0sgCJh9xuEdOic-Dng@mail.gmail.com> <20131210161620.667c1591@X220.alogt.com>
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I have a working root shell. sshd still seems to work fine, for now atleast. Ethan House On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 12:16 AM, Erich Dollansky < erichsfreebsdlist@alogt.com> wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, 09 Dec 2013 23:57:53 -0800 > Ethan House <ewh2048@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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