Uninstalled core-utils

[Lorenzo Taylor]

To attempt to recover your system without losing settings, you could try
the following:

Boot from the live CD
Open a terminal window
Manually mount your partitions (note that you must at least know the
device associated with your / partition.)
chroot to the mount point
apt-get install coreutils

I can't speak from experience as to whether or not this will work, but I
did an upgrade this way when I lost the ability to boot my system while
testing an earlier version of Hardy. As it turned out, I had updated the
packages and then rebooted the system leaving many of them
unconfigured/missing, so this procedure may work in your case as well.
YMMV.

HTH,
Lorenzo
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