A couple days ago, I installed Slackware 12.0 on an older computer. At the time, I thought I did not want/need x-windows since it was to be a server. Since then, I have decided to install x-windows (but I don't want to lose the other software I have installed/configured in the meantime).

Now comes the stupid part. I figured the best way was to boot from the CD and rerun setup, but only the select and install packages portion, selecting only those packages needed for the x-windows (so far so good). Due to brain failure, I interrupted the install process in the middle of installing glibc.

I have tried several times to rerun setup, but each time, in the middle of the installation of glibc setup exits with multiple console messages of "Killed". I have run removepkg glibc, and that appears to run ok but has no effect on the problem.

Luckily, the system still boots and runs ok, although I suspect I would have a serious problem if I tried to compile anything.

Does anyone have a suggestion as to how to fix this without dumping everything and starting over?

You don't need to boot from cd. Just boot normally.

Slackware packages are installed using the commands "installpkg" and "upgradepkg". What you should have done was simply mount the cd with the /x (and maybe /xap and /kde) directories and typed (as root)"installpkg /path_to_cd/slackware/x/*tgz" to install all the x stuff (do this with /xap to install X applications and guess what /kde has ;-).

You can fix a borked glibc install with "upgradepkg --reinstall --install-new path_to_cd/slackware/l/glibc_package_name.tgz". And if you really think some of the other libraries are affected you can reinstall all the libraries with "upgradepkg --reinstall --install-new /path_to_cd/slackware/l/*tgz".

You get the idea.

Brian

BCarey,

You have helped me save what little hair I have left! Thank you, your instructions worked perfectly (and I learned something new).