Uninstalled core-utils

[Thilo Six]

Lorenzo Taylor wrote the following on 12.04.2008 01:22

> To attempt to recover your system without losing settings, you could try
> the following:
> 
> Boot from the live CD
> Open a terminal window
> Manually mount your partitions (note that you must at least know the
> device associated with your / partition.)
> chroot to the mount point
> apt-get install coreutils

*DISCLAIMER: the following is untested*

I don't think this will work, because apt will not be able to install
anything without:
/bin/rm
/bin/cp
/bin/mv

But this idea with chroot will work i guess, when you copy the binaries from
an extracted coreutils.deb into the right places before it.

The desktop cd will have the coreutils.deb already onboard.
Extract it somewhere with:

$ dpkg -x coreutils_6.10-3ubuntu2_i386.deb .

(obvisouly this is the version i use from hardy ymmv)

then mount your / and cp the content of the extracted coreutils into the same
(right) places on your / .

Then cp the coreutils.deb onto your harddisc somewhere.

chroot into your system.

install coreutils again:

dpkg -i coreutils_6.10-3ubuntu2_i386.deb

/usr/sbin/grub-install /dev/YOURDEVICE
/usr/sbin/update-grub

umount
reboot
pry it works

> I can't speak from experience as to whether or not this will work, but I
> did an upgrade this way when I lost the ability to boot my system while
> testing an earlier version of Hardy. As it turned out, I had updated the
> packages and then rebooted the system leaving many of them
> unconfigured/missing, so this procedure may work in your case as well.
> YMMV.
> 
> HTH,
> Lorenzo


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bye Thilo

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