On Mon, 24 Apr 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > obliterates what was there before. Do you still have libc-2.1.2.so? I No. But I do have libc-2.1.3.so I booted the old zipslack I had on hda. How do ldd and ldconfig know to reference the libraries on hdc2, rather than the ones on the partition they were booted from? I did the following from zipslack after mounting hdc2 on /mnt (hdc2 being the slackware 4 installation that is messed up.) darkstar:/mnt/lib# ldd ./libc.so.5 ldd: ./libc.so.5 is not a.out or ELF darkstar:/mnt/lib# v libc.so.5 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Apr 20 00:24 libc.so.5 -> libc.so.5.4.46* darkstar:/mnt/lib# v libc.so.5.4.46 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 272384 Oct 5 1998 libc.so.5.4.46* darkstar:/mnt/lib# darkstar:/mnt# /sbin/ldconfig -n /mnt/lib /sbin/ldconfig: warning: /mnt/lib/libtermcap.so.2.0.8 is not a shared library, skipping /sbin/ldconfig: warning: /mnt/lib/libc.so.5 is not a shared library, skipping /sbin/ldconfig: warning: /mnt/lib/libc.so.5.4.46 is not a shared library, skipping /sbin/ldconfig: warning: /mnt/lib/libtermcap.so.2 is not a shared library, skipping darkstar:/mnt# darkstar:/mnt# /sbin/ldconfig -n /mnt/usr/lib /sbin/ldconfig: warning: can't open /mnt/usr/lib/libc.so.1 (No such file or directory), skipping darkstar:/mnt# I tried booting hdc2 again and found this: sh: /lib/libtermcap.so.2 is not an ELF file sh: can't load library 'libtermcap.so.2' then, messages about respawning too fast and waiting 5 minutes. Thanks, Kurt - 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
