Ok. Let me preface this by saying I'm not normally mentally challenged. People often bring me computer problems and they leave with their problem solved and their computer still running.
System: New Dell Poweredge running Woody. Installed with bf24 and using ext3 for /. Installed and running for about 4-6 weeks. Problem: I ran "ldconfig" when I had an LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable set to point to old old libraries. Once "ldconfig" finished, then no commands would work. Nothing. No, I didn't write down the messages that occurred when I tried any commands. I believed that I had inadvertently overwrote some key library. After I looked on another system and saw what ldconfig did, I was pretty sure that I overwrote something. Technically I couldn't "reboot" because no commands were working! A power-cycle worked up until the kernel started and the kernel paniced. No, I didn't write down the specific message that was spat out. If it is pertinent, I could get it. So I couldn't just reboot and hope for the best. At this point I *BELIEVE* that I hosed /etc/ld.so.cache . (I could certainly be wrong, of course.) But since I can't bring the system up I don't know how to recreate /etc/ld.so.cache . My mistake was not finding out what ldconfig did before I ran it. So I guess I'm getting what I deserved. Regardless, I'm hoping that someone else has done this before and can offer a solution. Deeper background: I was trying to get the free downloadable version of WP8 working. I found some old libraries and had wisely installed them into something like /usr/local/oldlibs. I had created a script which set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH to include /usr/local/oldlibs. I had actually progressed to the point that xwp would pop up a splash screen and the segfault (which was better than what I originally had which was just a segfault). I was trying to figure out what I might still have wrong and found http://www.linuxmafia.com/wpfaq/downloadwp8.html . I was fine until the part where I became root and did the ldconfig -v | grep libm.so.5 Of course, since the libm what I wanted was in /usr/local/oldlibs, I set my LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable like I had in my script. Then I ran ldconfig -v | grep libm.so.5 and everything broke. :-( I tried booting knoppix and using the /etc/ld.so.cache there but the kernel still paniced upon reboot. I don't know if the kernel paniced the same way or not. ANY help highly appreciated! Thanks! - Bill +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Bill Benedetto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. I don't speak for Goodyear and they don't speak for me. We're both happy. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
