Hello, I just tried updating my Debian 1.3 system tonight by ftp. I updated with the stable and unstable releases on ftp.debian.org. The last time I updated my system was about 2 weeks ago.
The symptoms here are not too detailed because I can't reboot my system! Here is what happened: I used dselect to download some of the new files. The ones that I remember that were significant were ld.so and libreadline2. After getting just a portion of the way in installing the files, I noticed the install scripts all aborting with errors and core dumps. I also noticed that it started somewhere around where libreadline2 installed. I decided that I'd better reboot before continuing. But I couldn't even su to root (core dump), so I just reset the machine. Now, the system will start executing /etc/init.d/boot, fsck and mount my root partition, and then just abort /etc/init.d/boot w/o an error and jump right to init 2. I checked the sym links to libreadline2, and they seem fine. But now I can't even log into my system! When I log in as root, it dis- plays all the normal messages it would right before it would execute bash, but then goes right back to the login prompt w/o errors. Please, could someone help me with this problem? I have no idea where to go from here. Hopefully, this will ring a bell with someone. Thanks, Garrett Jost -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .