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Old 02-10-2005, 08:53 PM   #1
jmcdonald21
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computer malfunction


Alright, my computer is bojangled. I know little about linux. I have Mandrake. I tried to install a new version of Quanta on my pc and messed it up big time. I used a command in the Quanta install guide that would let me have the beta and stable versions on my system here was the command: ./libz.so.1 -> libz.so.1.2.1.1. Then my system froze. I killed the programs with ctrl alt f2. and the computer rebooted. I was then brought to the terminal (the one with the c-address login:.) I logged in as root and tried to get back to the kdesktop and received this message "kdesktop: error while loading shared libraries: /lib/libz.so.1: file too short". This message appears when I try to access just about everything. I am not good at navigating in command prompts, and now I am stuck in terminal. When I reboot, f2 and f12 will not get me to the boot options menu or the bios, I receive a keyboard failure message and cannot do anything until I get to the terminal. I am stuck. No GUI, no nothing. If any one can provide help please do so. keep in mind I cannot boot from cdrom or my XP that's on my hbd. I don't know a lot about linux, so if you provide help keep basic. I need my GUI back I am still learning about PC's. Please help me. If you have info thats in depth you can e-mail me at joshmcdonald21@hotmail.com. If your wondering I am accessing the internet through a friends pc. Thanks Josh.
 
Old 03-04-2005, 04:41 AM   #2
kadissie
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I guess you've pulled your hair out by now and taken some sort of drastic action, so this comment is a little late and not actually a solution. But here goes anyway.

I am puzzled at the fact that your BIOS behaved differently after some change to the operating system and its libraries. It would help if you let us know what type of computer it is, and whatever you know about BIOS vendor and version.

You will probably have gathered, if you have taken a look on the web, that libz is a data compression library. What was the exact command line you issued when the system froze? From what you write I gather you were trying to create a link from one file to another, perhaps with a command line like "ln -s libz.so.1.2.1.1 libz.so.1", since if you had actually typed "./libz.so.1 -> libz.so.1.2.1.1" I don't believe anything would have happened.

What has happened? Have you managed to get something working again?

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