> 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?
>
I had this problem, but I also had a backup - a whole running system that I'd just
copies;-) It was easy to recover, I did so booted from the original system using "rpm
--upgrade --force --root ..."
I take it you didn't backup because you don't have space/tools to do so.
What you CAN try to do now is boot your RHL CD and attempt to upgrade from it. I
don't see it making things worse, but a backup before you start is still a good move.
Remember, new big EIDE drives are cheap.
--
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