[OpenIndiana-discuss] Recover from user_attr corruption

[Gary Gendel]

On 5/4/11 6:44 AM, Bayard Bell wrote:
> Does nsswitch.conf have you sourcing user_attr from a name service other than local files? Do you have any other snapshot images of your rpool that you can boot from grub?
Sure messed this up, didn't I? :(

This is not an urgent thing.  If I have to I'll reinstall since there 
was nothing particularly important on this laptop.  I'll try the 
milestone=0 and see if I can patch it.  If not, I'll just start from 
scratch again.  This laptop was my "test new release" platform before I 
upgraded my server.

Thanks everyone for the advice.  I was just curious.  It's interesting 
to see that corruption of a single file can cause such a big issue.  I 
let the person that created the package what happened so he can fix his 
install procedure.

> On 4 May 2011, at 00:21, Gary Gendel wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I installed a package that overwrote my privileges in user_attr.  Now I can't pfexec or do anythiing requiring raised privileges (software manager, etc.).  The laptop is running the dev_il repository.  How the heck to I recover from this?  The only LiveCD I know of uses an earlier version of zfs.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Gary
>>
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