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Old 03-30-2011, 02:47 PM   #1
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ash misses libc.so.6 in initial ramdisk


Hi,

i updated my netbook to the last incarnation of slackware-current yesterday.
My problem is now, that it is no more able to start the ash shell of the initial ramdisk i am using. The ramdisk was created with the latest version of the mkinitrd script. The error message is

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/bin/ash: error while loading share object: libc.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
And the error happens when the ash from the initial ramdisk is intended to be started. Simply copying the /lib/libc.so.6 stuff (symlink to the real so and the real so) enables to ash to be started but later cryptsetup fails to load.

The initial ramdisk from mid-January i used before did not have such a problem. What i also see is, that the failing ramdisk has a size of only 16k blocks. The one from mid-January was bigger.

Ideas are highly appreciated
 
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Old 03-30-2011, 02:51 PM   #2
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is already fixed in latest -current.

grab the latest mkinitrd.
 
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Old 03-30-2011, 03:10 PM   #3
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Excellent, thanks for info. Build -10 fixed the problem. Ramdisk uses now 24k blocks. Did not notice the new build because i was unable to boot
 
  


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