Mike Leone on Sat, 16 Nov 2002 17:29:17 -0500


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[PLUG] Help needed in reviving semi-hosed system


So here's the deal: I was getting many errors after some botched upgrades
from Debian unstable. I got permission denied messages from ldconfig (which
is run as part of the installation reoutine of many packages), and then the
system would spontaneously reboot).

I booted using a Libranet CD; went to a shell; mounted my /usr partition
(/dev/hde9, in my case, formatted as reiserfs). It mounted under /target
just fine. If I do a "ls /target/lib" - too see what is usually mounted as
/usr/lib, it gives me many error messages (all of which scroll past way too
fast to be read), and then reboots. Again. :-(

The error *looks* something like "Can't read kernel parameters" and "NULL
reference". NOTE: I can do a ls on other subdirectories, such as X11; it's
only that "lib" subdirectory that seems foobarred.

I'm presuming it needs a resierfsck, maybe? 

I was thinking of maybe blowing everything away and updating to Libranet
2.7, but I don't want to do that just now. :-)

Help, anyone? Suggestions?

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