Help! /bin/bash not found on chroot

Volker Wysk post at volker-wysk.de
Mon Nov 29 18:40:57 UTC 2021


Am Montag, dem 29.11.2021 um 19:05 +0100 schrieb Liam Proven:
> On Mon, 29 Nov 2021 at 18:56, Volker Wysk <post at volker-wysk.de> wrote:
> 
> > You mean it could be a hardware problem?
> 
> No, I don't mean that.
> 
> I mean we don't know what the problem was. We have almost no info.

Yes. The problem was really weird and I the symptoms don't give me a clue at
all...

> So what you should have done, it seems to me, was try to find out what
> the problem was, and then, depending on what you found, try to fix the
> problem.

Actually, I'm glad that it works again. (That's what it seems like).

> Instead, it seems to me that you went from the first step to the last
> -- "OK, I'll boot from USB" to "fine, all over, let's reinstall my
> bootloader!"
> 
> You bypassed all the steps in between:
> * what happened
> * what did it do
> * can I fix it?
> * can I prevent it happening again?
> * OK, I have identified the underlying problem
> * I have fixed it
> * I have fixed my disk
> 
> 
> > I have no idea at all, what's gone wrong.
> 
> I know. That is what I am saying. You totally bypassed all the most
> important steps in the process.

I'd like to know what-the-hell happened, too. But I don't have the expertise
to find that out, in this weird case.

> So, yes, it might happen again. It might not. We don't know. You don't know.

That's correct...

> 
> It's like the joke about troubleshooting:
> 
> «
> (...)
> »
> 
> You didn't even bother going back up the hill. You just got back in
> and drove off. That's what I was shocked about.

Not quite. I've done *something*, I'm not just getting back in and 
driving off. It's like that software engineer has done something 
to the broken brakes and says "Let's try it out".

Bye, Volker
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