I used swaret to upgrade Slackware 9.1 to 10.0 today (first time using swaret). It installed everything up to and including glibc-2.3.2-i486-6 (according to the logs). Immediately after that, the GNU portion of the system stopped working (i.e. not the kernel, but everything else -- bash in particular). So now the system won't respond to commands, won't INIT on reboot, etc.
What could cause the system to immediately stop working -- not running ldconfig after? I'm afraid I don't have a full grasp on the inner workings of a GNU/Linux system yet (accepting hardware donations for an LFS box ;-). Interestingly, the rev number of glibc is the same -- just the package number is different (glibc-2.3.2-i486-1 is the old one). I did a diff on the file listings for each package and the only real difference appears to be locale information. Colour me confused. I read on a website that the way they did it is to upgrade glibc-solibs, bash, and sed first, then the rest. I don't know if that gives anyone any insight. To make matters worse, I can't chroot using a Live CD either. It gives me 'chroot: /bin/bash: no such file or directory' which I am led to understand means that the shared libraries that bash needs the system doesn't know about. I ran ldd on bash but it doesn't help me much: libtermcap.so.2 libdl.so.2 libc.so.6 /lib/ld-linux.so.2 I'm stuck with a half-upgraded system. Any ideas would be appreciated. Thanks, Curtis _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
