LinuxHostingSupport

You 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.