Michal Jaegermann (michal@ellpspace.math.ualberta.ca)
Mon, 1 Mar 1999 00:26:56 -0700 (MST)
Bill McCall wrote:
>
> Sorry to be so cryptic.
>
> I installled glibc-2_1_990219,
^^^^^^
This looks like a prerelase of 2.1 library and your executables
probably expect glibc2. If you did not change practically all
your system to use a new major version of libraries you SHOULD
have big troubles.
> libjpeg-6b,
> libpng-1_0_1-5,
> zlib-1_1_3-2,
> XFree86 3_3_3_1-1 and
> amaya 1_3b. All rpms.
>
> I tried to 'startx' but got the following error message, now repeating
> at boot: shell-init could not get current directory:getwd:cannot
> access parent directories' .
So why do you think that this is amaya? It is short of amazing
that you got as far as you got. glibc2 and glibc2.1 do not provide
the same set of symbols.
> This hang at boot starts when init is started, and is followed by
> 'trying to initialize swap', where the screen freezes.
Yes, this is what I would usually expect. It looks like that
init already runs. Is your linked static?
> There is not any data on this system to save, but fixing it would be
> preferable to reinstalling.
Boot into a ramdisk, using your installation diskettes, switch to
the second console to get a shell and reinstall some version of glibc2
libraries (on your hard disk and not on a ramdisk - you may just
copy things from /lib onto your hard disk after you mounted it
and you will sort out things later when the system will back on
line).
Any other set of libraries is rather safe. Some things may break
if you replace them with a wrong version but on the whole your system
will run. glibc is rather basic one. If you are switching these
you better know what you are doing. You did not get glibc-2_1_990219
in a set of updates for your distributions.
Michal
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