Re: Urgency: machine hosed

[Tobias Weingartner <weingart@natasha.tepid.org>]

On Wednesday, September 6, Toni Mueller wrote:
> 
> I just hosed a machine... doing a build on -current another user wanted
> to run X and use emacs. The result was a complete freeze of the box,
> no error messages logged. Then i said the user should stay off the box
> and restarted the build process, but the machine froze hard again.

Lemme guess, you built a machine without first doing a build/reboot with
a new kernel?


> Unfortunately the user must have this box back soon, and me too 8((
> How can I repair it quickly w/o throwing away everything i did so far?

Backups?  Of course, I doubt you have those.  Well, then find a snapshot,
and boot from floppy, installing the kernel/libraries by hand.  That should
fix you.


--Toby.