No such file or directory

[ajcis55]

Hey all. Racking my brain trying to figure this out. Hoping for some help.

So, I've got a Ubuntu 10.04 Server edition installed as a VMWare ESXi VM. It's been working great for about 6 months. This morning, after not making any changes, I started seeing some errors. First problem was that my website (managed by apache2) was offline. SSH/ftp didn't work either. So I go through the console through vSphere. Tried a quick ifconfig, and I got this:

bash: /sbin/ifconfig: No such file or directory

mmk. Tried ls /sbin/ifconfig, got this:

bash: /bin/ls: No such file or directory

dir /sbin/ifconfig DOES work. PS also returns the 'no such file or directory' error.

Tried to ping 8.8.8.8:

connect: Network is unreachable

My $PATH appears correct. I have rebooted as well as doing a complete shutdown/power up. No, I don't have a snapshot from last night (or anytime that recent) that I can revert to. I have tried running these commands as root and another sudo user.

Commands known to work: dir, vi, dmesg, rmdir, mkdir, ifup (but it then returns ifconfig not found), shutdown, reboot, fsck (but I chose no to prevent damage)
Commands known NOT to work: ifconfig, ps, ls

Anyone have any ideas? I'll be monitoring this thread pretty close for a few hours so I can provide any answers and try anything recommended pretty quickly.

[sj1410]

something wired has happen to your server. do a

updated

&

locate ifconfig

what does it say

[ajcis55]

Updated is not a valid command?

locate ifconfig returns several locations, including /sbin/ifconfig, /usr/lib/libsh/.backup/ifconfig, and then 4 .gz files.

[matt_symes]

Hi

It should be

sudo updatedb
locate ifconfig

You can also use

which ifconfig

Check your paths

echo $PATH

Kind regards

[matt_symes]

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[matt_symes]

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[sj1410]

Updated is not a valid command?

locate ifconfig returns several locations, including /sbin/ifconfig, /usr/lib/libsh/.backup/ifconfig, and then 4 .gz files.

oh its updatedb than rerun locate ifconfig

your results shows that ifconfig is present in /sbin/


try again after updatedb

[ajcis55]

updatedb appeared to run correctly, without any notifications.

Ran locate ifconfig again and had the same result. which ifconfig also return /sbin/ifconfig.

Note that I am currently running commands as root (using sudo su).

[sj1410]

updatedb appeared to run correctly, without any notifications.

Ran locate ifconfig again and had the same result. which ifconfig also return /sbin/ifconfig.

Note that I am currently running commands as root (using sudo su).

lets reset the permission

chmod 777 /sbin/ifconfig

than run it

/sbin/ifconfig

[sj1410]

updatedb appeared to run correctly, without any notifications.

Ran locate ifconfig again and had the same result. which ifconfig also return /sbin/ifconfig.

Note that I am currently running commands as root (using sudo su).

lets reset the permission

chmod 777 /sbin/ifconfig

than run it

/sbin/ifconfig