I've been stupid... My gcc broke, giving me unresolved-symbol linker errors eg. about atexit in crt1.o when compiling a hello-world.
I guessed this was due to me "dpkg -i"ing libc6-2.2.5 and overriding dependencies cos I was fed up. So I thought I'd uninstall it and reinstall my original one (2.0.7.19981211-6) from the Debian 2.1 install CD. dpkg pulled it out ok. I told it to override dependencies here too, since the very next thing I was going to do was reinstall the original version. I didn't bargain for every single thing on the machine breaking before I could reinstall... I can't even reboot - kernel panics cos it can't find init. Presumably it means it can't load it properly, since /sbin/init is still there. Passing init=/sbin/init doesn't help. I can boot using my install CD, unpack the .deb manually and copy *.so to /usr/lib. But of course ldconfig is broken too, so I can't tell the machine its libraries are back. Please can someone tell me how to do ldconfig's job by hand... Pigeon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
