Hi,

My SuSE 10.1 won't boot. The error message states:

Starting powersaved: /usr/sbin/powersaved: error while loading shared libraries: libgobject-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
startproc: exit status of parent of /usr/sbin/powersaved: 127

Starting CRON daemon
Starting service kdm
Starting service kdm
Starting cupsd

Starting Firewall Initialization (phase 2 of 2) SuSEFirewall2: Warning: ip6tables does not support state matching. Extended IPv6 support disabled.

Master Resource Control: runlevel 5 has been reached
Failed services in runlevel 5: network powersaved
Skipped services in runlevel 5: nfs microcode smbfs

Welcome to SUSE LINUX 10.1 (X86-64) - Kernel 2.6.16.13-4-default (tty1)

linux-gyji login:




Can I fix this using the installation disks?


Thanks for any help!

From the messages you have posted here, it looks like the system has booted (in text mode, e.g. runlevel 3). From here you can login as root and try to solve the problem. It seems the powersaved service does not find a shared library anymore. libgobject-2.0.so.0 is provided by glib2 package, so you can start by verifying the package itself.

Another option is to edit the command line at the grub prompt and append
to the boot command.

Thanks, that sounds right. I might have updated glib2 yesterday while trying to install some software. The package libgobject exists in version 4.4.2.

Not sure what you mean by Grub prompt. Where do I find it?

Is there any way to load all my original packages from the installation disk, without reloading my whole system? Via the repair console perhaps?

Sorry, it is not correct to call it the Grub prompt, my mistake! If you have not changed the default Linux boot loader during the installation of OpenSUSE, probably you have GRUB installed. In the screen which let you choose the OS to boot when the machine is powered on, you can see something like Boot Options followed by a cursor. Here you can enter any option to pass to the boot command before starting the boot process itself. If you type here the line I have posted above, the boot process will skip the powersaved service.

The first things I'd do are:
to check the integrity of the two packages. You can eventually reinstall them from the installation disk, via YAST software management.

Ok, I tried powersaved=off, but it didn't seem to make a difference. Even tried it in Safe Mode. The commands

rpm -Vv powersave; and
rpm -Vv glib2

produced long listings of files in their respective directories. Nothing abnormal from what I can see, but I'm not an expert.

I still can't get anything to load :-(

Isn't there a way to fix this with the disk? What happens if I use the Installation option---will it overwrite everything?

If you have a separate /home partition (or /usr/local or any other data partition you have created) you can re-install without formatting them, so you will keep all the data untouched. Of course a good backup of the most important data is mandatory!
But before this ultimate solution, look at /etc/ld.so.conf (as root). This file stores the non-conventional locations of object libraries and libgobject-2.0.so.0 is installed under /opt/gnome/lib on SuSE. Could it have been modified by some of the last installations?

colucix---

I figured it out! It was kind of obvious. I totally overlooked the libaio package that I'd installed before the last boot. For some reason, that was the problem. I simply uninstalled it, and everything worked. I'd installed/uninstalled many rpms while trying to get an app to work, and I guess I didn't notice that one. I'm very new at this, but I'm determined to get better. Thanks very much for your help.