Organization: Bank of America, Capital Products, RMTG #5906
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 92 22:56:04 GMT
Lines: 23
I have just done something very strange to my Sparc2 and am at a loss to recover. Help is requested.
For irrelevenat reasons, I needed to make space on my /usr partition. I therefore moved share, diag, and kvm to a /local partition via tar pipe. After I had finished the experiment that required the space, I attempted to restore these directories. Unfortunately, I had forgotten to remove the new symbolic links (i chchanged the link from boot->./kvm/boot to boot->/local/usr/boot) and so the return pipe was doing something really wierd. Anyway, I got messages to th effect that 'warning: libraries being
changed'. Crash, panic, death, ... and after a dirty recovery, commands such as ps, vmstat, adb core dump.
I discovered that /usr/kvm/libkvm.a and /usr/lib/libkvm_p.a where garbaged (ranlib reported this) and replaced them with copies from another 4.1.2 2 machine, but the behaviour persists. I can operate most of the rest of the machine, but cannot get a ps or an adb to work.
Please suggest either cause or fix or both, else I must reinstall /usr from the cdrom and that would be a pain.
