Re: /etc is gone

Hi
I usually use /mnt or media directories. No offense taken, you are making a point. But /proc directory is empty. weird!

well, the biggest problem was my system wouldn't finish boot. boot ing proccess would hang around inittab error. I used a livecd to look around and discovered no /etc.
jj

On 6/20/07, Karl E. Jorgensen <karl@jorgensen.org.uk> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 08:54:30PM -0400, j j wrote:
> > Hello
> >
> > I have been have trouble with my debian box(64 studio). i just
> discovered that
> > /etc directory is missing. I dont think i deleted it, but it seems that
> I must
> > have.
>
> Perhaps not.
>
> Things to look at:
>
> - you haven't mounted something on /etc, have you? Although insanely
> stupid, pls don't be offended. When weird things happen, it's time to
> be insanely paranoid... (/proc/mounts should tell)
>
> - You haven't chroot'ed yourself, have you? (I know. Paranoia...)
>
> - Anything in the system logs? (things like re-mounting read-only or
> filesystem corruption would be very interesting...)
>
> I am surprised that you don't mention any other problems - if /etc/ was
> really really gone, I'd expect loads of other problems. Hence the
> somewhat paranoid checks...
>
> Hope this helps
> --
> Karl E. Jorgensen
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