On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 2:52 PM Roger Heflin <rogerheflin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Symbolic links missing on / (/bin->/usr/bin and such). > /bin/bash missing or corrupted. > /lib64/ libraries missing or corrupted. > systemd itself missing, pivot root attempts to run systemd and that > may be what is failing, but you don't really know what the underlying > cause is for it to fail. > > What exactly was the "improper shutdown" A failing battery (I think) caused it to shut down when I wasn't ready, and didn't shut down properly. Then I accidentally opened the lid, which started it again, and it again shut down cold. I wouldn't think that would corrupt things, but it's all I have for now. I'll dig into this tomorrow probably. > > The easiest way to debug is to livecd boot it mount up the old > filessystems on say /oldroot (rootfs) mount /oldroot/usr for usr and > so forth and then cd /oldroot and do a "chroot ." > > I would expect the chroot . to fail with some sort of error that may > hint at what is broken. > I'll try that. Thanks. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
