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By mistake, I executed these commands :

sudo ln -sf bash /bin/sh
sudo ln -sf bash /bin/bash

When I rebooted the Linux server in recovery mode I got this message:

init : Failed to spawn friendly-recovry pre-start process: unable to execute: Too many levels of symbolic links

and Linux doesn't run.

Ellouze Anis
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In case you don't understand this, you have essentially destroyed your copies of /bin/sh and /bin/bash.  Boot from some other medium (e.g., an optical disc, another partition, or a USB device) and restore them from a backup (or distribution media) or the Internet.

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