Re: cannot execute "/etc/init.d/rc"

Ivan Glushkov <glushkov <at> mail.desy.de> writes:

> 
> On Mon, 4 Oct 2004, Andrew Porter wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 2004-10-04 at 12:59, Ivan Glushkov wrote:
> >
> > > INIT: cannot execute "/etc/init.d/rcS"
> > > INIT: Entering runlevel: 2
> > > INIT: cannot execute "/etc/init.d/rc"
> >
> > What does ls -l /etc/init.d/rc* show ?
> 
> it shows:
> 
> -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 2235 Oct 4 14:25 /etc/init.d/rc
> -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1190 Oct 4 14:25 /etc/init.d/rcS
> 
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> I found the following:
> the /bin/sh was missing, as well as /bin/bash. I linked:
> 
> ln -s /bin/zsh bin/sh
> 
> Basicly seems like the whole system is not working properly:
> "apt-get dist-upgrade"  wants libc6.
> "apt-get install libc6" says that it cannot get the debconf version. The
> debconf version is ofcourse installed... So, the first task in the moment
> is to find a way to install libc6...
> 
>  (a lot of things in /lost+found/.)is there a way with apt-get or so to
recover the
> previous state of the system?
> 
> 	Ivan
> 
> 


Hi there, i know it's an old post but I had a similar issue and want to
share the solution.
My problem started when I connected an external HD to my Raspberry Pi and it
couldn't feed it with enough power.
First I realized that the root partition was not propertly mounted and
followed
https://raymii.org/s/blog/Broken_Corrupted_Raspberry_Pi_SD_Card.html to
recover the access to it.
I couldn't boot anyway after this operation.
>From your post, Ivan, I understood that I was missing the /bin/ folder in my
root.
I doublechecked with a fresh Raspbian SD all the folders I was missing and
copied back all of them into my SD: that did the trick!