On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 6:28 AM, Andrew Lowe <agl@wht.com.au> wrote:

> Hi all,
>         My machine went feral which resulted in me having to kill the
> power to kill it. Upon reboot everything looked good, fsck did it's job,
> [ok]'s scrolled up the screen etc and then I got the login prompt. I
> entered my username & password and then the fun began.
>
>         I got:
>
> -bash: .: /etc/profile.env: cannot execute binary file
>
> If I tried any command, say ls, I got:
>
> -bash: ls: no such file or dir
>
>         I've now rebooted the machine using a relatively recent
> sysrescueCD and had a look at profile.env and it's binary but I thought it
> should have been text!!!! In the top line or so it mentions "ld" for some
> reason. I checked the same file on the boot disk and it's text. One or two
> I found on line are also text.
>
>         Does anyone have any idea as to what's going on here? Should I
> just grab the profile.env from the boot disk and drop it into the /etc dir?
> Or should I go through the whole process of chroot off a gentoo disc and
> then run env-update as it says in the header of the text versions I'v seen?
>
>         Thoughts greatly appreciated,
>
>                 Andrew
>
>
Something else for you to try.
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-797683-start-0.html