[SOLVED] /bin and /lib have gone

Roken · 2019-01-26 15:29:15

Since sysadmin is gone, here I am.

I haven't done anything special, except installed davinci video editor, using the PKGBUILD in AUR, but now /bin and /lib are missing from my system, resulting in a none-booting system

root device mounted successfully but /sbin/init does not exist

Now, I know that both are symlinks, but since I can't chroot in (/bin/bash not found) I need to find a way outside of the system to fix.

I've tried a variety of permutations of symlinking (using, I should say, a Mint live disk) but none get me out of this hole.

The contents of /usr/bin and /usr/lib are intact.

Where do I go from here?

Last edited by Roken (2019-01-26 16:58:16)

seth · 2019-01-26 15:48:26

You can "chroot /mnt /usr/bin/bash" and in doubt use relative symlinks for the moment ("ln -s usr/bin /bin")

Scimmia · 2019-01-26 15:49:32

They're relative symlinks, anyway

Roken · 2019-01-26 15:50:26

I tried that - same error re /usr/bin/bash - but /mnt/usr/bin/bash definitely exists

qinohe · 2019-01-26 15:59:33

You can copy the symlinks from a working system 'cp --preserve=links'

Roken · 2019-01-26 16:57:56

@qinohe - not what I did, but led me to a "Doh!" moment. My laptop also runs Arch, so why not just look at exactly where the symlinks go and recreate them. All up and running again. Thank you guys.

I had a hairy moment where I couldn't get into the desktop, although I could get into a terminal (so not a permissions issue). Anyhoo, in my 3 hours of trying to fix it, I'd backed up fstab to avoid mounting stray drives, and forgot that I did it. Restored it and the world is good again.

eschwartz · 2019-01-27 02:34:08

Did you ever figure out what caused the issue though? You said the only thing you did was install some AUR package -- if that managed to delete /bin and /lib then I'd suspect some highly inappropriate post_install scriptlet. Which package is this exactly? If it is doing something that can damage users' systems we should know about it and fix it...

Roken · 2019-01-27 07:42:21

I honestly don't know. The package installed was davinci resolve. The PKGBUILD looks for the zip in ~/ (which has to be downloaded separately). But I don't suspect that PKGBUILD. I can't check, since it's just been updated, so even if it was that, it's been fixed.

It certainly wasn't user error (I don't make a habit of deleting system links), but since I'd also, earlier, had several updates, it could be any, or none. It may just be an aberration.

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#1 2019-01-26 15:29:15

[SOLVED] /bin and /lib have gone

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