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Old 12-05-2010, 08:50 PM   #1
2handband
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Upgrades nuke a 13.0 install


I just did a fresh install of Slackware 13.0 on a Toshiba laptop, and the ONLY thing I did on it after creating a user and switching to init 4 was to run upgrades. After doing so several applications failed to launch, so I rebooted the machine. I get the following error followed by a login prompt:

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/bin/sh: error while loading shared libraries: libtermcap.so.2: cannot open shaed object file: no such file or directory
And nobody can log in, including root.

Huh??? I've got another laptop running 13.0 with all the latest upgrades and it runs fine.
 
Old 12-05-2010, 08:52 PM   #2
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did you try reinstalling libtermcap?
slackpkg reinstall libtermcap
 
Old 12-05-2010, 10:09 PM   #3
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I just did a fresh install of Slackware 13.0 on a Toshiba laptop, and the ONLY thing I did on it after creating a user and switching to init 4 was to run upgrades.
What do you mean by "run upgrades"?

To be absolutely safe, you really should drop into runlevel 1 prior to upgrading packages.
 
Old 12-05-2010, 10:31 PM   #4
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Erp... I did something appallingly stupid... I added the slackware mirror instead of slackware64. It's fixed.
 
  


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