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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!news.kei.com!enterpoop.mit.edu!senator-bedfellow.mit.edu!e40-008-11.MIT.EDU!vikki From: vikki@e40-008-11.MIT.EDU (Vikki King) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: [386BSD] I broke something... Date: 17 Jun 1993 08:37:35 GMT Organization: Massachvsetts Institvte of Technology Lines: 20 Message-ID: <1vpagf$gp6@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> NNTP-Posting-Host: e40-008-11.mit.edu X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4 Hi Everyone: I was trying to use emacs from a (DOS) NCSA telnet connection to my 386bsd box. For whatever reason the console hung and I could no longer get a login prompt on any new connections. I rebooted. Fsck complained. I ran fsck manually and let it munch a bunch of stuff. Fsck was then happy although I was missing a bunch of random things like crond and some var/?? directories. I extracted a tar archive of my root filesystem made the night before. Now when the machine boots it appears like /bin/sh can't spawn any subprocesses correctly. The execution of /etc/rc just produces a stream of permission denied errors. If I substitute /bin/bash for sh *most* of the permission denied errors go away. An even simpler manifestation of the problem is to just run an iteration of /bin/sh. Any command (that I tried, like /bin/ls and /bin/cp) after that just gets a permission denied error message (even logged in as root). Anyone have any ideas what I broke? This particular bizzareness happened after I restored the tar backup. -John/Vikki vikki@athena.mit.edu