[OpenIndiana-discuss] Recover from user_attr corruption

[Ignacio Marambio Catán]

On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 8:49 AM, Gary Gendel <gary at genashor.com> wrote:
> 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.

hehe, try corrupting the kernel binary, THAT would be a big issue.
yours is a minor inconvenience
the milestone thing should work

>
> 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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