[BlueOnyx:06088] Re: cant run any commands on one of our BlueOnyxboxes

[Peter Robbins - Bridgewater Software Group]

it was a fkg nightmare

here is a list of what it took!!

On 12/12/10 17:02, Peter Robbins - Bridgewater Software Group wrote:
> Wow what a long day.  I have solved it!
> If anyone wants to know:
>
> Using an ubuntu livecd I mounted the LVM disk using LVM2
> I then used rsync from another BO box to get back the /lib and /usr/lib
> directories that had 'vanished'
> I had various issues with the VM and spent hours making the vmware
> snapshot join backup to the base file.  This occurred because I mounted
> the disk on an other VM and broke the connection between the VM snapshot
> and the VM base files.
> Once this was put back together I rebooted the VM BO box. This gave
> various issues with CCed not starting and no command login availble, so
> back to livecd and rsync /usr/sausalito
> rebooted and the only issue was httpd was not starting, so I found the
> offending site conf file and deleted it - its a dev site which I rthen
> added back in throught the admin panel
>
> and voila!
>
> Not bad for 16 hours continuous work all through the night and next
> day.  Iam off to bed now.
>
> Pete
>
>
>
>
> On 12/12/10 16:40, rodrigo at xnet.mx wrote:
>> I think michael mentiones a preceduure of creating a blank bo
>>
>> And then stopping cce and copy all the database objects and the contents of home. Just to be able to do a raqbackup
>>
>> Hth
>>
>> Rodrigo o
>> servicio email movil Blackberry
>> by xnet.mx
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Peter Robbins - Bridgewater Software Group<pete at bridgewater.it>
>> Sender: blueonyx-bounces at blueonyx.it
>> Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2010 15:48:50
>> To:<blueonyx at blueonyx.it>
>> Reply-To: BlueOnyx General Mailing List<blueonyx at blueonyx.it>
>> Subject: [BlueOnyx:06085] Re: cant run any commands on one of our BlueOnyx
>>    boxes
>>
>> update:
>>
>> ok, I have managed to put /lib back but i have a host of other issues.
>> Including no login and no  I can get access to the latest data
>> sites/mysql etc from livecd.
>>
>> I have also subsequently discovered that the latest backup is banjaxed.
>>
>> If I create a new BO server, is there anyway I can rebuild the sites and
>> gui data from the existing files on the old server?
>>
>> To clarify, I can copy or rsync the required data from one server to
>> another - I am not expecting this to be easy if at all possible
>>
>> Pete
>>
>>
>> On 12/12/10 00:06, Jeff Folk wrote:
>>> Does yum still work, by chance? Sounds like a hosed glibc upgrade, or from third-party repo? If yum still works, "yum clean all" and "yum update".
>>>
>>> If not... Going to be complicated. Rescue CD?
>>>
>>> Jeff
>>>
>>> On Dec 11, 2010, at 5:20 PM, Peter Robbins - Bridgewater Software wrote:
>>>
>>>> Help!
>>>>
>>>> Iam getting the following error on most commands eg: ls -al
>>>>
>>>> bash: /bin/ls: /lib/ld-linux.so.2: bad ELF interpreter: No such file or
>>>> directory!
>>>>
>>>> The server is still working ok, got no access on ftp and only access on
>>>> ssh on a machine that ssh was open on
>>>>
>>>> any suggestions on how to fix?
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