| From: | Peter Avalos <pavalos@xxxxxxxxxxxx> |
| Date: | Sat, 29 Jul 2006 23:30:31 -0700 |
| Mail-followup-to: | users@crater.dragonflybsd.org |
On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 07:53:22AM -0600, Gergo Szakal wrote: > Yeah, I was stupid. I have set the default shell to /usr/pkg/bin/bash > and started an upgrade of packages in the evening which has removed bash > as well, obviously. All would have been good if DragonFly didn't spit > out some race error (v 1.5.4 yet, was just about to start > buildworld/buildkernel for 1.6.0, of course I cannot report it :-P) > making the build processes fail somewhere, leaving me with no bash > installed but bash as default shell for my root account and regular > account as well. If I follow the instructions at > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/admin.html#FORGOT-ROOT-PW > > , then when I chsh, vi does not display things properly (will fiddle > around with this later of course, if I cannot help it any other way, I'm > just in a hurry now), so I cannot edit the info. All I could find out is > to get the bash package written to some removable medium and install it > from there. Is there some other, simpler way - perhaps involving the livecd? Since the n00b meter was pegged, I'm assuming you don't know about manual pages: 'man chsh' could have helped you figure this out: chsh -s /bin/sh --Peter
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