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Old 01-31-2005, 11:28 PM   #1
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swaret a little gnome!!!! cannot exec... /sbin/agetty....


hey. hello everybody!!!!

I was updating my box with swaret. everything was cool (even I was surfing a little around), until the PC reboot by itself. very weird.

when it went on the system shows me this log:

INIT: cannot execute "/sbin/agetty"
INIT: cannot execute "/sbin/agetty"
INIT: cannot execute "/sbin/agetty"
INIT: cannot execute "/sbin/agetty"
INIT: cannot execute "/sbin/agetty"
INIT: cannot execute "/sbin/agetty"
INIT: cannot execute "/sbin/agetty"
INIT: Id "cd1" respawning too fast :disable for 5 minutes.


and on, and on......


what could be the problem?. because in this one I don't have any clue!!!!
 
Old 02-01-2005, 01:42 PM   #2
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they say swaret sucks for updating slack. its better to download current ftp tree make you iso images from it. there's a readme in the isolinux directory that tells you how to make the iso images. a dvd image would be better every thing would fit on a dvd.
 
Old 02-01-2005, 02:33 PM   #3
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I would think of a glibc problem for the cannot execute "/sbin/agetty" as I had
similar experience with a failed glibc upgrade, but I am not sure

The fact that your computer did reboot by itself is weird...

For my part, what I would do is boot from a slackware live CD, mount the hard drive
root partition, copy the libc.so from the cd /lib (the libc.so file, not the symlink) in the
/lib of the mounted root partition (maybe make a backup of the libc.so before) and
redo a symlink if neccessary.
 
Old 02-01-2005, 03:37 PM   #4
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thanks you for the reply. I'll be trying to do it.!!! gentleman, please wish me luck!!!
 
Old 04-23-2008, 04:36 PM   #5
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did this solution work?
 
Old 04-23-2008, 05:18 PM   #6
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http://rlworkman.net/howtos/glibc-recovery
 
Old 04-23-2008, 06:45 PM   #7
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thats a good article man, ill bookmark that - it might come in handy while im working on my system
 
  


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