Hello redhatters,
When installing a newer version of glibc the installation failed due
to space problems. After that I accidentily rebooted, and of course no
succesful boot up after that :(
Trying to restore the situation was very troublesome, since my CD
with possibility to boot with 'linux rescue' was with rpm v3, and my
current installation is running rawhide with rpm v4.
Setting the PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH, giving the appropriate commands
with full paths, mounting the hard dir root on /hdroot together with
other partitions gave me (after a lot of trials) the possibility to
reinstall glibc with rpm v4, using
/hdroot/bin/rpm -Uvh --force --root /hdroot glibc-2.2.2-7.i386.rpm
I did not succeed, however to make rpm read the installed database.
A few questions:
- Is there some crash howto available somewhere?
- Can chroot be used sucessfully? I did not have any luck.
- Which libraries, executables (statically and dynamically linked) and
support files are needed to run rpm v4 sucessfully?
- What to do when an executable has an absolute path to a supporting
program built in, and that program is available on the /hdroot, not
on the mounted root directory from the CD (which is also read-only)?
- Is it possible to remount the hard disk root on / and the CD hard
disk root somewhere else?
Svante
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