Re: what to do when libc6 upgrade goes bad

1999-03-23 Thread Dan Hugo
Sarel Botha wrote: > > > Having updated libc6, I didn't know whether a reboot was in order, since > > that is a fairly important library for just about everything. Well, > > this was a bad idea, since my machine hung rebooting, and then nothing > > would run once the kernel finished starting. Co

Re: what to do when libc6 upgrade goes bad

1999-03-22 Thread Sarel Botha
> Having updated libc6, I didn't know whether a reboot was in order, since > that is a fairly important library for just about everything. Well, > this was a bad idea, since my machine hung rebooting, and then nothing > would run once the kernel finished starting. Couldn't log in, rescue > disk d

More info (was Re: what to do when libc6 upgrade goes bad)

1999-03-22 Thread Dan Hugo
Here is the error that was occurring when I attempted to reboot, as I describe below: /bin/sh: error in loading shared libraries : undefined symbol: rl_ignore_some_completions_function Dan wrote: > > Greetings-- > > I just made an attempt at upgrading my installed libc6 using > libc6_2.0.