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Here is a simpler solution that worked for me. It was spewing debug
message (since I run with debugging on), so for most people it might
just sseem hung, I ^C'ed it and ran ldconfig. Everything worked again.

On Sat, 2002-10-19 at 15:02, ^GiuAnZ^ wrote:
> Alle 15:16, sabato 19 ottobre 2002, Robin ha scritto:
> > I just updated glibc, and it fried my machine. (Well, the install SEEMED
> > OK, but sorcery thought otherwise), and now I have no glibc at all, which
> > is a Bad Bad Thing. I'm currently in text mode knoppix, working through a
> > shell account (yay ufies.org :) however, needless to say, I'd like my
> > machine back up and running ASAP. Is there a quick fix?
> >
> > (Sorry about long lines, I have no choice of video mode that knoppix
> > uses...I can't even use X, as the default freq makes my monitor turn off)
> 
> I've had the same problem. In my case it relied on some old libraries that 
> were moved to /usr/scr/glibc-2.3.1/old.libraries, while they should be 
> simply 
> deleted; dunno why the glibc spell or the configure script do things that 
> way.
> 
> After successful build (but unsucessful from the sorcery point of view) 
> bash 
> was complaining it was unable to find glibc 2.2.5 in 
> /usr/src/glibc-2.3.1/old.libraries. Then I thought "hey, it should use 
> 2.3.1, 
> not the old 2.2.5, so that sh*t old.libraries should be removed". 
> Unfortunately this is not so simple because, if the system is not able to 
> load glibc, everything is f*cked up! No command worked and the system 
> wasn't 
> even able to boot anymore.
> 
> I've managed to go through it and here's my quick fix:
> 
> - boot from sgl cdrom
> - continue booting
> - nls (set your keyboard)
> - shell
> - mount your root fs (or the one containing /usr) on /mnt (e.g. mount [-t 
> reiserfs-or-what-fs-you-use] /dev/hda1 /mnt)
> - rm -rvf /mnt/usr/src/glibc-2.3.1/old.libraries (or rename it if you feel 
> more comfortable)
> - reboot
> - the system should be ok now but, to clean things, do a cast -c glibc (it 
> shouldn't break again).
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> -- 
> ^GiuAnZ^ - Giovanni Lopedote, Bari, Italy
> (damn busy at the moment)
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