bsd no login

bluethundr

bluethundr

unfortunately I seem to have hit a brick wall logging into my FreeBSD box either remotely or locally. I would love to provide conf files and logs, however without the ability to login that's kinda hard. x(


Does anyone have any suggestions for how to proceed short of a reinstall?


Code: 
[root@lcent5-1:~]$:bsd2
Last login: Tue Aug 17 12:09:45 2010
Copyright (c) 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994
	The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.

FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE (GENERIC) #0: Sat Nov 21 15:48:17 UTC 2009

#########################################################
#               SUMMITNJHOME.COM                        #
#               TITLE:       FreeBSD 2 BOX              #
#               LOCATION:    SUMMIT BASEMENT            #
#                                                       #
#########################################################


/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libiconv.so.3" not found, required by "bash"
Connection to 192.168.1.44 closed.
[root@lcent5-1:~]$:

And here is the verbose output from an SSH command.

http://pastie.org/1100263

Thanks!!
 
Boot in single-user mode, mount your filesystems ->

Code: 
fsck -y
mount -u /
mount -a -t ufs
swapon -a

-> run chsh(1) to change shell back to csh (for root) and tcsh (for user)s)). Don't use bash as the shell for all wheel users (leave at least one wheel account on the default shell) and root. Activate and use the toor account if you really need a bash shell for root.

Upgrade your ports tree and your ports, keeping an eye on /usr/ports/UPDATING.
 
I'll give it a go!

Thanks DD! I'll give that a go and let you know. I'll have to try this tonight when I get home from work. Just out of curiosity is there any particular reason as to why bash is deprecated for root or for that matter for any user? :\
 
bluethundr: If bash doesn't work, try
% ssh -t bsd2 /bin/sh
Then you have an interactive session with sh(1)().
 
continuing login woes

Greatly clarified DD! Thanks!

lme@:

no love here:

Code: 
[root@lcent5-1:~]$:ssh -t $BSD2 /bin/sh
/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libiconv.so.3" not found, required by "bash"
Connection to 192.168.1.44 closed.
 
login FTW

DD and others, thanks for your help!

Sorry for the false alarm, but the last time I experienced a similar issue to this one I was not able to login locally as well as remotely.

So when I SSH'd into the box from work and saw this error I feared the worst.

But very luckily when I returned home I noticed I was still logged in! :r

So (as root) I typed in exec bash which returned the same error.

So I, very simply, typed

Code: 
chsh -s /bin/csh

Which got me into a safe cshell.

I then went:

Code: 
/usr/ports/shells/bash make deinstall

then
Code: 
/usr/ports/shells/bash make clean && make install config clean

Then su'd to my user account

Code: 
su - bluethundr

And typed exec bash and all was well.

Thank you for your patient tutelage!
 
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