deleted libc.so.6

ranjeet_kapur · 03-11-2004, 11:47 PM

I am running debian, kernel 2.4.20. I have 2 versions of the libc library and libc.so.6 was linked to one of them. In attempt to change the link I did "rm libc.so.6", to be followed by "ln -s ....". But after the rm, most of the commands I type complain about the missing libc.so.6. About the only things I can do are "cd" and "pwd". Tried doing a dpkg -i <libc*.deb> in a dir. where I have a libc package, but that complained about the missing libc as well. How can I recover ??? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Ranjeet

Demonbane · 03-11-2004, 11:50 PM

The CD should have a rescue mode, boot with it, mount your root partition and fix it up.

ranjeet_kapur · 03-12-2004, 03:07 PM

Thanks for the tip ....... Although the booting in the rescue more failed, I remembered that I could esape to an ash shell during an install. So I started a new install, escaped to the ash shell, mounted root and relinked libc.so.6 ... and now I am up and running

gwung · 03-26-2004, 09:25 AM

Hi,
I did exactly what you did; I removed libc.so.6 and tried to relink it to a newer version and failed .

what exactly did you do to repair the lib?

And I was thinking if I can just insert a knoppix live CD, use the knoppix in commnad and relink it from there? I dont want to shutdown the server. Any suggestions?

Many many thanks in advance!

Brane Ded · 03-26-2004, 12:16 PM

Quote:

And I was thinking if I can just insert a knoppix live CD, use the knoppix in commnad and relink it from there? I dont want to shutdown the server. Any suggestions?

A Knoppix CD would work fine for that. It will only take about five minutes to fix, so the server wouldn't be down long.

gwung · 03-26-2004, 12:49 PM

found that I can use ldconfig to do some restore, however, i dont know what to do with ldconfig, help?

tried:
1.) prompt#ldconfig
2.) prompt#ldconfig -n /lib

nothing happened.

adie · 05-22-2004, 10:03 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by gwung
found that I can use ldconfig to do some restore, however, i dont know what to do with ldconfig, help?

tried:
1.) prompt#ldconfig
2.) prompt#ldconfig -n /lib

nothing happened.

# /sbin/ldconfig -l /lib/libc-2.2.5.so

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