| Zathrus | yum provides execvp |
| foxb | What rpm? I did an upgrade from 4.4 to 5 and now I have error that execvp is missing. So I'll need to install it somehow?! |
| Zathrus | foxb: run that command. |
| foxb | I do not have access to my centos... |
| aixing | run "yum provides execvp" |
| foxb | Hey I know this command, but there is no way to execute it fro knoppix I canot boot my centos |
| Zathrus | how did you do the "upgrade" ? |
| foxb | via yum |
| Zathrus | thought so. You system is toast, you have to reinstall. |
| foxb | can you run this command for me? |
| boudiccas | foxb; did you have regular and good backups of your home? |
| Zathrus | yum is not a supported method for upgrading between major releases, and it will not work. It will, however, result in a toasted system. |
| range | execvp is not a binary. |
| Zathrus | foxb: execvp is a low level C API that's provided by the kernel and glibc. That your system is complaining about it indicates just how badly broken it is. |
| foxb | And why my error message says no such file or dir? |
| Zathrus | because your system is BROKEN. And it is not recoverable. |
| foxb | Ok probably I'll reinstall |
| boudiccas | foxb; i reiterate, i hope that you've got good backups of your home directory |
| foxb | no problem I'll copy over the LAN to other machine |
| range | foxb: What is the *exact* error message? "No such file or directory" is strange, as there is no such file on 4 or on 5. |
| foxb | I need to reboot, but those are my notes... I'll be back soon |
| HAIDEN | onicrom: you around? |
| foxb | Hey I'm back exact error message is: Checking root filesystem \n execvp:No such file or directory |
| ivazquez | That's not a problem with execvp, that's just a missing executable. |
| foxb | Now the problem is which one? |
| action | ivazquez checks what his system tries to run at that point |
| ivazquez | checks what his system tries to run at that point |
| foxb | It is root filesystem check. I'll try to fild the script |
| ivazquez | Hang on, it's in the initrd I think... |
| foxb | it is in rc.sysinit so it could be awk fsck or initlog |
| ivazquez | That's what I'm thinking. |
| foxb | it seems that fsck is missing ... |
| ivazquez | It should be in e2fsprogs. |
| foxb | how I can disable it at boot? then I'll be capable of installing the package |
| ivazquez | You can't/shouldn't. You're better off making sure that it's installed, either by passing an argument to rpm or in a chroot. |
| foxb | Ok I'll try from resque mode |
| boudiccas | how can in install a package via yum which has not been signed. is there any way in which i can -force- it please? |