# MV /bin instead of ./bin

**URL:** https://forum.maboxlinux.org/t/mv-bin-instead-of-bin/2123
**Category:** Technical Issues
**Created:** [December 23, 2024, 2:08pm UTC](https://forum.maboxlinux.org/t/mv-bin-instead-of-bin/2123 "2024-12-23T14:08:41Z")
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### Author: ![brin](https://forum.maboxlinux.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/c68b51/32.png) [@brin](https://forum.maboxlinux.org/u/brin)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2024, 2:08pm UTC](https://forum.maboxlinux.org/t/mv-bin-instead-of-bin/2123/1 "2024-12-23T14:08:41Z")

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After installing latest packages I got a  
Failed Virtual Console Setup  
After chrooting into the system I couldn’t do anything because of Pty device errors, tried doing pacman -syu but it says nothing to do when ran as non root.  
Journalctl says that lightdm had an error…  
Doesn’t say anything about the nature of that error, and then when I switch over to tty2-6 it complains about not being able to find /bin/login  
Anyone seen this before, what do I do? I have so much stuff that I’d like to keep about that system ;D

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### Author: ![napcok](https://forum.maboxlinux.org/user_avatar/forum.maboxlinux.org/napcok/32/410_2.png) [@napcok](https://forum.maboxlinux.org/u/napcok)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2024, 2:15pm UTC](https://forum.maboxlinux.org/t/mv-bin-instead-of-bin/2123/2 "2024-12-23T14:15:31Z")

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Hello @brin and welcome to the forum 🙂

Never seen that myself. You might try to follow this thread from Manjaro forum…

> **[Failed to start Virtual console Setup error message](https://forum.manjaro.org/t/failed-to-start-virtual-console-setup-error-message/165517)**
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> Hi all, On booting, I keep getting an error message FAILED Failed to start Virtual Console Setup. Now to be clear, it is not interfering with anything in any way. The error message briefly displays on its own against a black boot screen and then...

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### Author: ![brin](https://forum.maboxlinux.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/c68b51/32.png) [@brin](https://forum.maboxlinux.org/u/brin)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2024, 3:21pm UTC](https://forum.maboxlinux.org/t/mv-bin-instead-of-bin/2123/3 "2024-12-23T15:21:06Z")

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Oh I think I simply mv’d my /bin directory instead of ./bin 🙂 because bin/bash and bin/login don’t exist…

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### Author: ![brin](https://forum.maboxlinux.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/c68b51/32.png) [@brin](https://forum.maboxlinux.org/u/brin)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2024, 3:32pm UTC](https://forum.maboxlinux.org/t/mv-bin-instead-of-bin/2123/4 "2024-12-23T15:32:16Z")

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