Subject: Re: "su" in r escue?
To: Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino <itojun@itojun.org>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@netbsd.org>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 06/23/2004 17:20:45
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On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 09:11:48AM +0900, Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino wrote:
> > On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 00:29, Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino wrote:
> >=20
> > What is wrong with using option -s booting into single user mode or boo=
ting=20
> > using a  "rescue"-disk or cdrom in order to undertake the required chan=
ges? I=20
> > don't believe that adding complexity and consequently bloat to the resc=
ue=20
> > binaries is the way to go when alternative procedures are available.
>=20
> 	when you cannot do power-cycle + singleuser login, nor power-cycle +
> 	rescue-cd-boot, what would you do?  i have been in such situation
> 	many times.  most cases it is shlib issue.

The only thing I can think of, which won't necessarily help, is to log=20
into a rescue sh before performing the update step that hoses the lib. I=20
realize this won't help in all cases. :-(

Take care,

Bill

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