On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 03:55:08PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi everybody: > I am getting kind of desperate with this and before trhasong all my debian > installation I would like to beg for help in the list. I broke my > installation of libc6, while trying to install a newer version, and then I > was not able to deinstall or install another version, since everything > segfaulted. I though that I would be able to reinstall the libc6 with the > rescue disks, but I have been unable to do it so far... so, what is the > less destroying way of getting my debian system to boot again? > > I have tried booting with rescue/root disks and then using the static dpkg > to install a new libc6, but it complains with something about the root > user (that is does not find in one of the dpkg control files...)...Could > some helpful sould give me some hints about how to get it working without > having to reinstall completely? This is my configuration, just in case: > > /dev/hda1 / > /dev/hda2 /var > > Last used libc6 : 2.3.1-17... which is the one that is broken in the hard > drive right now... > > Please, Cc: to my mail account
Boot off something that gives you chroot, ar, tar and gzip. I think the install disk has all these. Then get a shell and: cp /path/to/libc6_2.3.1-17*.deb /tmp cd /tmp ar -x libc6_2.3.1-17*.deb tar xzf data.tar.gz mount /dev/hda1 /mnt cp -a lib/* /mnt/lib cp sbin/* /mnt/sbin chroot /mnt /sbin/ldconfig umount /mnt ... then reboot as normal; should be going again... -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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