Re: init bug / crash recovery

Albert Cahalan (albert@ccs.neu.edu)
Sat, 16 Mar 1996 00:13:44 -0500 (EST)


>> Well, as it turns out no e2fsck (or any other fsck) exists on the root
>> floppy. I mounted root partition on /mnt and tried '/mnt/sbin/e2fsck'.
>> The system answered "/mnt/sbin/e2fsck not found". 'ls -l
>> /mnt/sbin/e2fsck' produced:
>> -rwxr-x--- 1 root bin 69252 Aug 8 1995 e2fsck*
>>
> It's looking for a shared libary, and can't find it.

Then there is a bug somewhere, because something (the shell?)
told the user "/mnt/sbin/e2fsck not found" instead of
"libsomething version x.y.z not found" or "foo() not found in libsomething".

This is worse than mount telling the user that /dev/hda1 is
not a mount point when the wrong filesystem is chosen,
and maybe worse than the dd problem reported a month ago.

Any ideas?