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[Geoffrey Derber <Geoffrey.Derber AT Trinity.edu>]

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^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.
|
Thanks, that fixed my problem.  A simple reboot did not work for me.  I
couldn't get to the command line at all, it failed before that.

Geoff
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