rpm stopped while installing glibc, and needless to
say, nothing worked, not even init. Which brings me to
the following question: Shouldn't init, and a few
critical commands be statically linked to allow for
easier system recovery in the event of a crash. A
small price to pay in size but ...
--- Eugenio Diaz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Has anybody else had a system corruption while
> updating to the mirros
> last weekend?
>
> Suddently "autorpm" stopped, and then anything on
> the path would not
> execute, with message "no such file or directory"
>
> Curiously the "tab completion" worked, and showed
> the files existed
> (since "ls" didn't work anymore). As another
> curiosity, the "rpm"
> command still worked, but showed weird results.
> Fearing and rpm db
> corruption, I issued an "rpm --rebuilddb". It
> finished fine, but didn;t
> fixed anything.
>
> Thinking there may have been some discrepancies from
> the running kernel
> and some installed libraries or modules, I decided
> to reboot (was a
> mistake, but I also needed to physicaly move the
> system, so ...), and
> guess what? the "shutdown" or "init" or "halt"
> commands didn't work
> either, so I pushed the deadly button ...
>
> When it rebooted, I got a kernel panic since it
> could not find "init". I
> haven't yet booted with a floppy (to busy) to find
> out more.
>
> Does anyone have any idea of what could have
> happened here?
>
> --
>
___________________________________________________________________________
> Eugenio Diaz, BSEE/BSCE Invent.com,
> Inc.
> 1001 N. Lake
> Destiny Rd., Suite 125
> Linux Engineer Maitland, FL
> 32751
> Tel.:
> (407)475-1130
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax:
> (407)475-1128
>
>
>
>
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Eugenio Diaz, BSEE/BSCE Invent.com, Inc.
1001 N. Lake Destiny Rd., Suite 125
Linux Engineer Maitland, FL 32751
Tel.: (407)475-1130
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax: (407)475-1128
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