Re: [OT] Random Errors
Re: [OT] Random Errors
- Subject: Re: [OT] Random Errors
- From: Sam Hart <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2004 20:34:38 +0000
Ken wrote:
The symptoms are this: My scp/sftp commands stopped working. ssh
continued to work.
% ssh -V
OpenSSH_3.6.1p1+CAN-2004-0175, SSH protocols 1.5/2.0, OpenSSL
0x0090702f
I looked at /usr/bin/ and there were a bunch of files of size 0, scp
and sftp included.
you say here that scp and sftp are of size 0
I figured I would try to run software update to
see if it would do anything, and nothing happened... From the xterm,
I get this:
% softwareupdate
dyld: softwareupdate truncated or malformed library:
/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/SoftwareUpdate.framework/Versions/A/
SoftwareUpdate
(file is empty) Trace/BPT trap
this is interesting, it should merely print usage
Also, some xterm commands don't work. 'xterm' does, but 'xterm -font
10x20' does not (and it did yesterday).
what have you changed since yesterday ?
have you updated or installed anything ?
sftp modified makes me think 'crack',
not necessarily, the size was 0
but missing font resources makes me think hardware.
fonts, stfp and scp
It makes sense I discovered it through ssh
because the ssh suite is one of my frequently used commands.
I thought ssh was alright ?
So I manually downloaded and re-installed the 10.3.6 update (which I
did automatically last week) and it brought sftp/scp back to life.
thats good
But there are still some 0 length files in /usr/bin (like cvs), and
softwareupdate still does not run at all.
these probably weren't updated recently
I did an 'fsck -fy' in single user mode and nothing changed. I have
run verify & repair disk permissions in DiskUtility. Not
surprisingly, that didn't restore any files, it simply changed their
permissions. I also booted to a rescue CD and ran the apple GUI
version of fsck (Disk Repair Utility)
these will not fix files of length 0
reset RAM/PRAM (CMD+OPT+P+R), and boot to firmware w/ a
'reset-nvram; reset-all' didn't do anything.
again for the same reason
I think _maybe_ the latest software update did this somehow. Or at
least it turned up around then. File mods in /usr/bin are 6 Nov.
ok
Maybe it was a fink update? Doubt it.
why ?
Maybe some sort of conflict
with a 3rd party software/kernel extension? Re-booting with no exts
loaded (kext | grep -v apple) didnt' help.
wouldn't do
Searching for the above softwareupdate error brought only 1 hit, a
Sept 14 2004 post in Italian:
http://www.macity.it/forum1/messages/4163/295166.shtml?1095951196
While I don't speak Italian, I am not happy about this:
Brutta... una libreria di sistema devastata, devi reinstallarla
dal CD.
the text seems incomplete or out of context
something about reinstalling from a CD
but I have no idea what it refers to
All I can think of is a) re-seat the ram
I don't think that would achieve much
or 2) bring it to the apple store
maybe (?)
or 3) find a more appropriate forum.
Any thoughts?
is it worth backing up any personal files and doing a clean install ?
I know it sounds harsh, but you might not be aware of the extent of the
damage
and trying to fix it could produce unpredictable results.
Also if it happened again you would have a better idea.
Of course I am more than aware that sometimes this is just not a viable
option.
S a m
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