Failed to login from TTY1 (from recovery mode) cannot execute /bin/bash/: no such file or directory

Ruwaa Mohamed

5/28/23, 5:38 PM

I was trying to install wine to run a Windows program on Ubuntu 20.04. There was a problem installing wine because of dependency packages. I followed some instructions to manually install the dependency packages but while installing the first package (which I don’t remember now) I realized that something big/fatal is about to happen in my Ubuntu and I tried to halt the installation. Afterwards my computer took a while trying to shutdown with a message “Unattended upgrade in progress during shutdown, please don’t turn off the computer”. When I tried to turn it on again, it didn’t boot. I went to the GRUB menu and selected Ubuntu to boot, it leads me to the tty1 terminal and I can’t log in from it. I went to the GRUB menu again and tried to open the recovery mode for diagnostics/fixing and this directs me to the tty1 terminal too. When I try to login with my user name and password, I get this message: Cannot execute /bin/bash/: No such file or directory

I don’t know what went wrong and I don’t know how to fix/diagnose it. What should I do to fix this?

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user535733

5/28/23, 8:00 PM

The inability to login due to the error `Cannot execute /bin/bash/: No such file or directory` suggests major damage to your filesystem. Use a different machine to create a 20.04 Live USB. Use the LiveUSB to boot your machine. Backup all your data from your machine on to some other media. Then reinstall Ubuntu.

Ruwaa Mohamed

5/28/23, 10:22 PM

Thank you very much.. I will try to get my data from the hard disk.

Ruwaa Mohamed

5/28/23, 10:23 PM

Is there a way to fix it instead of reinstalling?

user535733

5/28/23, 10:44 PM

You cannot tell us what your input was. You cannot tell us what your output was. You have not been able to access logs. So we don't know what happened. We have only a single data point: That bash is apparently not installed anymore. We don't **know** if it can be fixed or not. It can perhaps be fixed...if you already have the skills to use a LiveUSB environment, to read and understand your logs, to chroot, and to use dpkg. But teaching you each step to diagnose the actual problem --and waiting for feedback-- will take a week. The fast, easy solution is to backup and reinstall.

Elon Musk

I sit in a Tesla and translated this thread with Ai:

EN: Failed to login from TTY1 (from recovery mode) cannot execute /bin/bash/: no such file or directory

TH: ไม่สามารถเข้าสู่ระบบจาก TTY1 (จากโหมดการกู้คืน) ไม่สามารถดำเนินการ /bin/bash/: ไม่มีไฟล์หรือไดเรกทอรีดังกล่าว

RO: Nu s-a putut conecta de la TTY1 (din modul de recuperare) nu se poate executa /bin/bash/: nu există un astfel de fișier sau director

RU: Не удалось войти в систему с TTY1 (из режима восстановления) невозможно выполнить /bin/bash/: нет такого файла или каталога

VI: Không thể đăng nhập từ TTY1 (từ chế độ khôi phục) không thể thực thi /bin/bash/: không có tệp hoặc thư mục như vậy

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