Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2012 17:50:48 +0700 From: Erich Dollansky <erich@alogreentechnologies.com> To: Rod Person <rodperson@rodperson.com> Cc: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>, "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Port update hosed entire system Message-ID: <20121001175048.6348575a@X220.ovitrap.com> In-Reply-To: <20121002062045.020b8237@atomizer64> References: <20121001200829.2c8afade@atomizer64> <20121001080254.46572b2e.freebsd@edvax.de> <20121002062045.020b8237@atomizer64>
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Hi, On Tue, 2 Oct 2012 06:20:45 -0400 Rod Person <rodperson@rodperson.com> wrote: > On Mon, 1 Oct 2012 08:02:54 +0200 > Polytropon <freebsd@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
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