Just installed slackware, but its hanging at boot, it gives the errors:
/sbin/mingetty: relocation error: /lib/i686/libc.so.6: symbol _dl_starting_up, version GLIBC_PRIVATE not defined in ld-linux.so.2 with link time reference
...repeated many times.....
INIT: Id "3" respawing too fast: disabled for 5 min
INIT: Id "5" respawing too fast: disabled for 5 min

How can I get this box to boot?

Thanks in advance.

what does your /etc/inittab file look like??

did you do a full install or did you cherry-pick packages??

/etc/inittab looks normal, run level 3 by default.

I cherry picked.

It seems to work ok when I used a reiserfs instead of ext3, does anyone have slackware 10.1 running with an ext3 file system for the / partition?

ahhh..iirc ext3 support is not included by default in the stock kernel. reiserfs is and so it works.

of course ext3 support is included in 10.1's kernel, et al... otherwise it would be ridiculous to provide the ext3 option during install... take a look at the config file for 10.1 and you'll see: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackwar.../bare.i/config abefroman, you did select to install the e2fsprogs package, right?? (just making sure)

I'll bow to your greater knowledge win32sux but I've definately been caught in that trap somewhere before now and I'm sure it was a Slack version.....yep, the more I think about it the more familiar it seems especially the 'respawning too fast' error message. And it was an fs disabled in the kernel...probably not 10.1 though so sorry for any confusion caused.

have you tried reinstalling Slack? Maybe some installation problem, something maybe get missed...

Sorry to be bumping a 3-year-old thread, but I thought it worth adding that I just installed Slackware 12.1 and got the same error:

When I reinstalled with ext2 instead of ext3 it worked. Possibly I could also have got it to work by selecting "format the root partition" during install, which I didn't do when trying ext3 as the partition already had an ext3 filesystem on it.

Edit: when I googled for the error, this thread was the only hit. It saved me a lot of time, hence me thinking it was worth bumping for anyone else! Hope that's ok.

Seems like the first you installed Slackware 12.1 on top of anotehr distro (/lib/i686/libc.so.6 is not a Slackware file) and that messed up your resulting installation bigtime. Recipe for disaster.

No reason to revive this stinking old thread. You should have been more careful in the first place.

Eric

Being an ass doesn't help anyone learn anything. This, however, did:
so thanks

Of course I sprinkle the sweet and the sour into the same dish. It should have learnt you that libraries in different distros (or even in different Slackware releases) are not safe to mix. This is also the reason for the much-heard advice not to install individual packages from one Slackware release onto another Slackware release. Most often this results in breakage.

If you think I was an ass I am fine with that; you are entitled to your own opinion. But I would say there is a lot for you to learn still.

Eric

Okay guys all this talk about asses isn't gonna help anyone.

Please knock it off and let this thread die (again).

Thanks for showing a constructive attitude by posting additional information. Necroposting (posting in threads left stale for 4 months or more) is frowned upon. That should however not give any LQ member the excuse to point that out in impolite terms. Next time I suggest creating your own thread and posting a link to the original thread. Being closed, this thread is now.