I will try an alternate shell first.  I use GRUB so it is time to learn how to
do a command line in GRUB.

Alan

On Fri, 27 Sep 2002 10:09:41 -0700 Voltage Spike <voltage_spike@fastmail.fm>
wrote:

> Yeah, I cringed when the first response was to
> reboot the machine . . . 
> I knew someone would get upset over that one.
> 
> First of all, try starting using an alternate
> shell.  If you use LILO, 
> I believe the command you are looking for is:
> 
> linux init=/bin/ash
> 
> OR
> 
> linux init=/bin/tcsh
> 
> OR
> 
> linux init=/bin/ksh
> 
> If you are lucky, then you will have one of
> these alternate shells 
> installed (very likely).  If not, as noted, you
> will need to boot using 
> a recovery disk.  If you have the install CDs
> you should be able to use 
> them to recover things.  If you can't figure
> out how, then don't 
> hesitate to ask.  (Hint: at a very minimum, you
> might be able to Alt-F2 
> on the graphical screen to get a shell.  You
> can probably mount, fix, 
> and reboot, but it will take a bit o'
> knowledge.)
> 
> In either case, you can fix bash when you get a
> shell by typing:
> 
> chmod 755 /bin/bash
> 
> Good luck.  If you don't get it fixed, someone
> at the InstallFest can 
> get it done in minutes.  Unfortunately, I won't
> be able to attend, but 
> if you have a "Linux" hat (not "GNU/Linux")
> then you will soon find out 
> who knows their way around. :-)
> 
> - -- 
>                                                
>             Voltage Spike
>        ,,,
>       (. .)
> - --ooO-(_)-Ooo--
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