Segmentation faults running most programs

[brianinmaine]

I was playing around, now I'm in a pickle:

Tons of programs give me a "Segmentation fault". I have a modified /etc/profile that loads /mnt/us/.bashrc that loads all my other directories, libs, and binaries in /mnt/us/usr and /mnt/us/bin ...

anything I can do other than kubrick?

even /bin/vi is a Seg fault...

I rebooted the Kindle multiple times (3 or 4).

[knc1]

Originally Posted by brianinmaine

I was playing around, now I'm in a pickle:

Tons of programs give me a "Segmentation fault". I have a modified /etc/profile that loads /mnt/us/.bashrc that loads all my other directories, libs, and binaries in /mnt/us/usr and /mnt/us/bin ...

anything I can do other than kubrick?

even /bin/vi is a Seg fault...

I rebooted the Kindle multiple times (3 or 4).

What one thing is common to all of the failing programs ?

That was a rhetorical question.
The "C" library.

Is there among all of the things you have added, a non-Amazon "C" library ?
If so, remove it.

If you system is now too crippled to run the commands you probably need to un-do whatever you have done - - -
Then you could try placing a **STATICALLY LINKED** copy of Busybox on the system and use it's shell and utilities.

OR

KUBRICK back to a known starting point.

[brianinmaine]

Twobob PMed me and suggested the same - rename my custom .bashrc to go back to the system libs and work from there. Trying now. Thanks for the help!

Edit: oh, yeah! that at least lets me run the builtin stuff. Now to track down the mess I made! Thanks AGAIN!

[aditya3098]

Also, try running "mntus --fsck umount", and then rebooting.

I need to do that all the time. For some reason, debian wheezy corrupts my kindle as soon as I plug it in.

[brianinmaine]

Originally Posted by aditya3098

Also, try running "mntus --fsck umount", and then rebooting.

I need to do that all the time. For some reason, debian wheezy corrupts my kindle as soon as I plug it in.

All is better now. I had copied another libc to my path, I removed it and now all is as before. Thanks for the help, I was very concerned I really broke something, glad it was really a minor thing!

[knc1]

Originally Posted by brianinmaine

All is better now. I had copied another libc to my path, I removed it and now all is as before. Thanks for the help, I was very concerned I really broke something, glad it was really a minor thing!

sometimes, even a crazy old man makes a lucky guess:
https://bitbucket.org/knc1