I'm having a learning experience. I took Lawson's advice and installed glibc-2.0.7pre6. During the install things stopped working. For instance, on vt 2, the output of less would not respond to 'q'. Other terminals which had a prompt, would not respond to <Enter>. The only terminal that would respond, the one I began the install from, would advance a blank line after <Enter>. Ctrl-Alt-Del yielded: /sbin/shutdown: '/lib/libc.so.5' is not an ELF file /sbin/shutdown: can't load library 'libc.so.5' So, I pressed Reset. Upon rebooting, I got more messages like the above, just from different commands. I'm not at that computer now to be more specific about which commands, but the parts after the : were the same. An e2fsck was recommended. The README for glibc-2.0.7 says: If you decide to switch back to developing with libc.so.5 again, you'll first have to edit your 'specs' file to link with ldlinux.so.1. Could this be the answer to the error messages? If not, please read on. I rebooted with the Slackware 4 cdrom and ran e2fsck, to which I answered yes to a lot of questions I didn't understand. Then I uninstalled glibc-2.0.7pre6 and reinstalled libc. Actually, I think I reinstalled the A set and the AP set. Attempts to boot from the hard drive, continued to give the same errors. Oh, and a message about no more run levels. Is there a way to fix this without reinstalling? If I reinstall, will Slackware delete files in my home directory, or will it just overwrite files with the same name? This install is on hdc and I have two empty partitions. Would 'cp -rp /etc /home/k ootlof' preserve my work (assuming it isn't already damaged?) I also have an older zipslack on hda in addition to the bootable cdrom to work with. Also, during the reinstall of libc, I received: tar: usr/bin/skill: Could not create file: Text file busy tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors. Thanks, Kurt Kehler - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
