my slack can't load shared library

AnhTuan · 10-01-2004, 11:46 PM

Hi, guys!!! It's my first post in our slack board.

Last night, I used swaret to upgrade my slack (10.0). But when it installed new packages, console was printing out "/sbin/agetty: error loading shared lib xlibX11.so.6".
I knew that 'cause slack don't check dependence and i got that error

And now i can't start my slack
Anyone can help me rescue him?
Sorry for my English

Bruce Hill · 10-02-2004, 02:28 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by AnhTuan
Hi, guys!!! It's my first post in our slack board.

Last night, I used swaret to upgrade my slack (10.0). But when it installed new packages, console was printing out "/sbin/agetty: error loading shared lib xlibX11.so.6".
I knew that 'cause slack don't check dependence and i got that error

And now i can't start my slack
Anyone can help me rescue him?
Sorry for my English :D :cry:

Welcome to LQ!

Why do you say " i can't start my slack?" How do you try to start Slack?
What happens when you do this? What are the error messages?

Oliv' · 10-02-2004, 07:32 AM

Hi,

I think that Slack boots normally and then when it should open login prompt in different tty, he gets his error message (so no login prompt) cause Slack can't run agetty...
I think that the esaiest way to solve this is to take a Linux live CD, boot from it and chroot your Slack to add the missing library

Oliv'

AnhTuan · 10-03-2004, 07:15 AM

Thanks for your reply!!!

To Chinaman:
Oliv's post said all my problem. But i don't know what "different tty" is.
Yes, now my slack is no loginpromt when i start him.

To Oliv:
Can you explain for me that problem?

And how to i rescue my slack with a live cd (i had a knoppix)
Thanks!!!

Oliv' · 10-03-2004, 08:21 AM

Hello,

I didn't realize but I did an "ldd" on agetty exec on my slack10. Here is the result:

Code:

[15:05][root@slack /sbin]# ldd agetty
        libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x40026000)
        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)

So agetty doesn't need xlibX11.so.6 shared library... And so your problem is stranger than I thought

Do you start with X or with a text console? If you start with X, try to type: Ctrl+Alt+F6 and see if you can login... If you succeed, you'll be able to repair your Slack i.e. download the missing library

Oliv'

Bruce Hill · 10-03-2004, 08:30 AM

AnhTuan and Oliv'

I did the same thing, plus a search for the library:

Code:

root@james:/sbin# ldd agetty
     libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x4002c000)
     /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)
root@james:/sbin# find / -iname '*xlibX11.so.6*' 2>/dev/null
root@james:/sbin# exit
exit
mingdao@james:~$ cat /etc/slackware-version
Slackware 10.0.0
mingdao@james:~$ uname -r
2.6.7

and don't even have that library in my system, so I've waited
for your response. I believe it's something with the programs
that swaret installed, rather than something already on the
system.

Oliv' - I can't help with swaret, because I compile everything
from source and have never used it - but it seems that a log
of what swaret d/led would be helpful in tracking this error.

Edit: Were you updating Xorg during this swaret session?

Edit 2: Oliv' it's probably in X
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackwar.../source/x/x11/

AnhTuan · 10-03-2004, 09:27 AM

Thanks, Oliv and Chinaman

To Oliv:
I'll feel happy if i get terminal.
Now when i start my computer, slack start until that error message print out. And i can't do something.

To Chinaman:
You're right. I saw swaret upgrade X on my system.
I think i must use a live cd and copy that file to path.
Oliv and Chinaman, thank you very much

Oh my slack, why do you leave me ?