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["Ron Clarke" <ariadne AT acepia.net.au>]

Hi Steven,

On Tue, 3 Feb 2004 06:59:16 +1300, 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> Ron Clarke wrote:

>> In my efforts to get my installation of BL2 to run more
>> and more players/viewers I finally overcooked it, and now
>> I cannot get BL2 to even boot properly.

> What does happen when you try to boot?

   It starts the bootup, but stops dead at init:   see below.
Then it takes a cold boot to restart the computer.

> Don't give up just yet.

   I am heartened by that.

>> Then I chased down a glibc-2.3- library for something Xine
>> wanted, and I finally found an .rpm

> As soon as I saw rpm, I knew the source of the problem.
> I always recommend that people DO NOT use rpms.
> It doesn't matter what sort they are.  They are almost
> guaranteed to bite you sooner or later.

   Well, finally one did.     :(

   I was able to work with about half a dozen or so before this, but I
will be a bit more circumspect from now on.

> Redhat-type systems (that use the rpm) have a slightly
> different file/directory structure, so a major package
> (like a library upgrade) is likely to cause a mess.

   This one was actually corrupt, I think. Even just extracting it gave
some very odd subdirectories, which formed part of the error message if
read in sequence, with the /bin , /lib , /usr directories found in on
of them.

>> In my uneducated rush to fix it, I have now lost a lot
>> of the other libraries,

> What did you do?  Did you try deleting the new libarary?
> Or the old libraries?

  That sort of thing.   :(

I tried replacing one or two of the new libraries with ones that worked
before, but I was already having segmentation faults with the static
Links 2.1.9 graphic, and pkgtool, installpkg too.

>> and now it stops halfway through bootup to the message
>> that libX.something not found or doesn't exist.
> Please make a note of the exact error messages.

This:
---------------------

VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly
Freeing unused kernal memory: 60 k freed
init: error while reading shared libraries: /lib/libc.so.6 :
file too short                                    # all on one line
_

     (locked up solid)
--------------------

>> Is there a way to recover all the work that has gone
>> into this particular installation,
> Perhaps.  It depends on how much damage has been done.
> The fact that it doesn't boot, doesn't mean the damage
> is severe.  All it may need is an ldconfig.

> I suggest you boot ramdisk BL2, mount the sick HD partition
> at /mnt.

   Did that, and noticed in /mnt/lib that "libc.so.6 -> libc-2.3.2.so"

   Can that link be re-written to point to libc-2.2  , which was working
just fine ? Or is it not as simple as that ?

>  Then execute the following:
> --------------------------
> /mnt/sbin/ldconfig -r /mnt
> --------------------------
> Umount, reboot and make a note of the new error messages
> (if any).

   Different error message:
---------------------

Freeing unused kernal memory: 60 K freed
init: /lib/ld-linux.so.2: version 'GLIBC-2.1.1' not found (required
by /lib/libc.so.6)                               #  on one line

_

   (locked up solid again)
---------------------

   Any clues ?    I appreciate your help.

Regards,
         Ron
Ùj

Ron Clarke
AUSREG Consultancy http://www.valylink.net.au/~ausreg/index.html
Tadpole Tunes      http://tadpole.mytunebook.de/
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