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chroot: error while loading shared libraries: /lib/libc.so.6: file too short

Hi,
I was trying to check the library 'libc.so.6' using VI editor on Debian OS. When I tried to close VI editor, it got stuck and When I restarted the system, I got this error

chroot: error while loading shared libraries: /lib/libc.so.6: file too short
Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init!

Do I need to re-install the OS or is there any other method to overcome this problem.

Does anyone know the solution? Please help me.

Thanks in advance.
Kind Regards,
Ilyaz

No need to reinstall, you can download the .deb from debian, extract it, take the file you want and put it in /lib

For this you need:
->To know which version of libc6 you have to take (ls /lib/libc* will tell you) Which release of debian do you have.
->An os that can write to your /lib, maybe a livecd

Tell me if it goes well.

Quote:

An os that can write to your /lib, maybe a livecd

Preferably a debian based livecd, ie one that has dpkg or some other way of manipulating .deb packages.

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Originally Posted by Daws

Preferably a debian based livecd, ie one that has dpkg or some other way of manipulating .deb packages.

No need for dpkg, .deb is the old ar linux format:

Example on my machine (unstable):

Code:

bork@freedom:/tmp$ ll /lib/libc.so.6

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 2006-06-10 09:20 /lib/libc.so.6 -> libc-2.3.6.so

bork@freedom:/tmp$ wget http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/glibc/libc6_2.3.6-15_i386.deb

bork@freedom:/tmp$ ar x libc6_2.3.6-15_i386.deb data.tar.gz

bork@freedom:/tmp$ tar xvjf data.tar.gz

root@freedom:/tmp# mount /mnt/pathtobrokendeb

root@freedom:/tmp# cp /mnt/pathtobrokendeb/lib/libc-2.3.6.so /mnt/pathtobrokendeb/lib/oldlibc-2.3.6.so

root@freedom:/tmp# cp /tmp/lib/libc-2.3.6.so /mnt/pathtobrokendeb/lib

Should work :)

edit: ermm ar is maybe not present if there is no compilation suite (gcc,..).
then dpkg
or ark (kde default decompressor)

I learn something new every day on LQ...

Thank you very much for your help.