i survived the crash of 2005

10.06.05 - 08:45pm
mood: Happy
 
..well I'm on my way to full survival.
My web server crashed HARD!!

More will follow as I pick up the pieces.

addendum

IT'S FIXED!!!


The errors were:
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/etc/rc.sysinit: /dev/null: Read-only file system
bash: /dev/null: read-only file system
Bad file descriptor

Thankfully for nerds, I found the answer without having to do any major reconstructive surgery. I just had to jump into single user mode, mount / and /proc then execute these commands (as root):

mount -o remount,rw /
rm -f /dev/null
mknod -m 666 /dev/null c 1 3
sync

/dev/null somehow became a regular file and was not owned by root anymore. I'm gonna have to check the logs to see if the kernel went wonky or if I need to accuse another German of spamming.