Error: Unable to execute bash: No such file or directory
June 12, 2010 | Posted byYou may receive “Unable to execute bash: No such file or directory” error message while starting a VPS and the reason is either the binaries from /bin OR /usr/bin are missing OR corrupted.
To fix the issue, you either copy the directories /bin and /usr/bin from a working VPS OR from the OS template the VPS is using.
Solutions:
1) Copy directories from a working VPS:
cp -pR /vz/private/VEID1/fs/root/bin /vz/private/VEID/fs/root/ cp -pR /vz/private/VEID1/fs/root/usr/bin /vz/private/VEID/fs/root/usr/
where,
VEID1 is the working VPS
VEID is the VPS having problems.
2) Copy directories from the OS template. The OS templates are stored under /vz/template/cache directory.
a) Extract the template file the VPS is using
# cd /vz/template/cache/ # tar -zxf os-templatename.tar.gz
b) Copy the directories to the VPS private area
cp -pR /vz/template/cache/root/bin /vz/private/VEID/fs/root/ cp -pR /vz/template/cache/root/usr/bin /vz/private/VEID/fs/root/usr/
Once copied, make sure you are out of the VPS private area and restart the VPS.
# vzctl start VEID
It will re-calculate the quota of the VPS and will start the VPS.