A disaster just occurred to me after I ran the command yum remove python
and now I can't boot the server up anymore.
How it happened: I tried updating some apps via yum on my CentOS 5 VPS and the command was failing due to some weird python 2.4 error. I noticed that my version of python was old and I tried reinstalling it by first removing it, and so I did yum remove python
.
After that it asked me something about removing dependencies and it looked like nothing I could miss so I clicked Y
.
So the aftermath of that was that I was unable to run any command what so ever. I even tried cd /var/www
but it said something like "command does not exist in /usr/bin
". When I used tab to see folder navigation suggestions, the file structure still seemed to be there (at least the /var/www
bit which is really important to me).
After that I tried restarting the vps (from the admin panel since reboot
command did not work) and now it doesn't boot anymore.
Now my question is: how can a command like that possibly destroy my server like this?