dead in the water
It had to happen one day.
i've finally done it. I've broken my beautiful system. ok I was having problems reading man pages and executing pipe commands etc. I had another thread about it. Anyway it seems that udev is responsible for executing commands etc so it re installed it to the correct one for a 2.6.10 kernel which is apparentl udev-54 but now I have very little functionality. at boot it states error occured during root filesytem check you will now be given a chance to log in and fix. If you are using ext2 file syetem running e2fsck -v -y [root partition ] might help.... oh it also says /dev/console: no such file so anyway it logs me in single user mode but it dosn't let me edit anything. I can't edit any files beacuse it complains that there are too many session files in /var/tmp thus I tried logging in with my old 2.4.26 kernel but coz the nvidia kernel interfaces are compiled for a 2.6* kernel I can't get in and it just hangs. Now my daaughters bugging me coz she's lost her gateway and can't surf. If someone can offer me a glimmer of hope b4 a dreaded re install i would be greatful,although i just put my slackware cd in the drive and re-booted but it didn't boot to it??????? |
ok pico lets me edit.
but when i try to save changes it says that its a read only file system.. not good. |
hmmm..
i think will start making a boot disk. |
No need, try booting off your second slackware disc, which is a recovery disc, then try mounting your filesystem as rw, and see if you can make the necessary corrections with pico from there.
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jeebiz
Thank you for the cool head. I can log in to the gui only as root. when i logged out and tried my log in it said startx not found;and when i put the full path in it said permission denied?! and auth: not found question. do you think its worth trying to upgrade to slackware 10.2 with the system in its present state? ?? |
okay
system is restored to pre-hissy fit state. I somehow managed to install the wrong version of udev. Did someone say dougnut?! |
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yeah..Lets hope so ,but I can't knock e'm too much ...
they do good work...and i should have been more careful :0) So when you upgrade a kernel in the 2.6x family udev is another consideration then ? |
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