Okay, let's hear it. How did you bork a linux box? Now we are not talking about a failed kernel compile here, but a software install, de-install, configuration change or something that rendered your Linux box unuseable and requiring a re-install.
We'll collect them, then have a poll and the winner will win something. Maybe a t-shirt or something.
How I borked A Linux Box
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Gentoo system wide upgrade
Note this was about 2 years ago:
After painfully installing Gentoo (on a 800mhz system) I decided to do a system wide upgrade via emerge -world. The packages appeared to download and install correctly. I booted up and my system was completely dead in the water. All my init scripts were completely gone. This was especially painful since the Gentoo install took about 3 days. I'm sure Gentoo is a little more stable now. I would be willing to try it again on a faster system.
Live and learn.
After painfully installing Gentoo (on a 800mhz system) I decided to do a system wide upgrade via emerge -world. The packages appeared to download and install correctly. I booted up and my system was completely dead in the water. All my init scripts were completely gone. This was especially painful since the Gentoo install took about 3 days. I'm sure Gentoo is a little more stable now. I would be willing to try it again on a faster system.
Live and learn.
Ego contemno licentia
Wow, how long ago was this? I did the same thing back when slack 7.1 was running on the server. In fact, I did not learn my lesson and did it a second time a few months after that. The sad part was that I was administering the linux box remotely when I remove glibc. And the rest was history...mrben wrote:A long time ago now (back in the beginning of my Linux days) I removed a large piece of software that wasn't doing much, called glibc.........
I have another one. I had a slackware box running for a goodly amount of time. One day I was messing around with fdisk and deleted the /usr partition. My partition scheme at the time was a seperate /, /usr, and /home.
Well, three months later when the power went out and the machine went down, it did not come back up happy. I spent some time trying to figure out what happened. And then I recalled, I friggin fdisked the /usr partion!
Even with that partition gone and a good portion of the sofware with it, the damn thing still tried to run.
Well, three months later when the power went out and the machine went down, it did not come back up happy. I spent some time trying to figure out what happened. And then I recalled, I friggin fdisked the /usr partion!
Even with that partition gone and a good portion of the sofware with it, the damn thing still tried to run.