On Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 11:48:27AM -0800, Heather Stern wrote: > On Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 05:34:17PM +0000, Nyk Tarr wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 08:57:27AM -0800, Michael K. O'Brien wrote: > > > Hola~ > > > > > > I was trying to downgrade libc6. For some reason, downgrading the package > > > didn't update the ld-linux.so.2 link. So, in a moment of idiocy, I removed > > > the ld-linux.so.2 so that I could relink it with a different version of > > > ld.*.so. Well, after removing the link, I can't actually resolve any > > > commands, > > > which makes it difficult to rebuild the link. > > > > > > Is there any way to run a command without ld-linux.so.2? Is there any way > > > to > > > fix my system. > > > > > > > Yup, but you need one of two things: another root partition - a repair > > and recovery disk like Tom's rtbt, or a statically linked toolchain > > (one that needs no dynamically linked libraries) - all of /sbin > > should be statically linked, but sadly for you doesn't have ln. > > > > A quick google gives > > > > http://www.toms.net/rb/ for Tom's > > http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/system/recovery/!INDEX.html > > As a list of likely candidates > > > > or > > http://lbt.linuxcare.com/ > > and its competitor - the continuation of their original project > http://www.lnx-bbc.org/ > > > or even gnoppix for linux-on-a-cd, from which you could just mount your > > hd and fix the link from there. > > That's knoppix (with a K; though gnome is alos available on it, the > distro is named after Klaus Knopper, its maintainer)
Ah. That'd explain why I couldn't find it. ^_^ > http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/ > > ...and directly debian based. A bit overkill just for rescue, but since > it's really debian, you can probably safely raid binaries from it, and > should also be able to dpkg-repack yourself a good .deb of something > he's got. Especially useful if you've got some odd hardware and need a module... Although we should all have custom recovery disks.. ^_^ -- /__ \_|\/ /\
