Hello,

I'm newbie in linux so, please be patient.
My os is CentOS 5.
I have a problem at booting kernel, i had an error like:
/sbin/init: error while loading shared libraries: /lib/libdl.so.2: file to short
kernel panic - not synicing: attempted to kill init!

This happnes after I installed Apache and restart server.

Is this a way to skip loading this library?
Do you have any idea how to boot system now?

Thank you in advance.

Hi

the problem seems to be not your apache installation. The problem is a possibly damaged library. The error message stated point to a file which is part of glibc. During system tries to load the library it detect that the file seems to be not complete.

Try booting in rescue mode from cd and check the files of glibc using . If the file is damaged, replace it by a complete working version. If the size of the file is not the problem your hard disk or settings for the disk creates the problems, so that not all data can be read. You can try stopping the use of DMA by parsing on boot prompt.

I suggest to verify not only glibc, but all packages. may be more than one file was damaged and may be not only in in glibc.

If it's only one file - do as mesiol said. If damage is serious - I recommend reinstall the system

Thank you for your answears.

I resolve the problem for my own.

I booted a system from liveCD and copy all of libraries which were empty, and then almost succesfully run the server.
I wrote "almost" beacouse system and all of services started, but i can't login to the system. The message sayes something like "login incorrect".

I'm not sure that login 'root' is correct beacouse of non-knowing of this server. Is this possible to change the root password from livecd? passwd or something?

Hi,

did you check where your data loss comes from? It's very strange to me to have files lost on a system. Possibly there's a hard disk problem.