Slackware current

jam222 · 04-08-2007, 06:04 AM

I tried upgrading my slackware to current using swaret. At the end I noticed lot of the packages failed to upgrade. Now when I am booting the machine I am getting this error

-bash: /lib/lib.so.6 version 'GLIBC.2.4' not found (required by -bash)

I cannot login to the machine. Do I have to reinstall or is there anyway I can save my current installation.

kosmik · 04-08-2007, 06:17 AM

Generally, is not recommended to use swaret, to upgrade between glibc-releases, because it take packages in alphabetical order, and that behavior breakes installation of packages, which are dependant to glibc-2.5 (new in current)

You can try boot some live distro, and install packages glibc-* by hand, and than run upgrade again.

jam222 · 04-08-2007, 06:29 AM

I cannot boot from the CD either. When I try botting from the CD I get the same error. To boot from CD I am typing

bare.i root=/dev/hda2 nointrd ro

Is there any other way I can boot and get to my current installation

kodon · 04-08-2007, 06:36 AM

just boot straight off the livecd
without setting the root to the hdd

make sure the livecd uses a 2.6 kernel

mount the hdd

use `installpkg -root /mnt/<mountpoint> <package>`
or `ROOT=/mnt/<mountpoint> upgradepkg <package>`

simcox1 · 04-08-2007, 06:43 AM

Try this.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...d.php?t=543647

Road_map · 04-08-2007, 06:54 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jam222

bare.i root=/dev/hda2 nointrd ro

noinitrd
Boot from a Live CD (Slax, etc) and mount the Slackware root partition:

Code:

mount -t reiserfs /dev/hda1 /mnt/slack

replace "reiserfs", "hda1", "mnt/slack" with your fit. Then run removepkg and installpkg to replace glibc-*.tgz. Please read CHANGES_AND_HINTS.TXT for Slackware-current.