[gobolinux-users] messed up system :(

[Isaac Dupree]

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hisham.hm at gmail.com wrote:
> On 6/27/07, Jonas Karlsson <jonka750 at student.liu.se> wrote:
>> 2007/6/27, Kenneth Marken <k-marken at online.no>:
>>> i dont now how it happened but im looking at a /bin/sh error upon handover
>> from kernel to init. something about it failing to load libtinfo.so.5 or
>> something like that.
>>> so, any quickies on how to fix it?


> libtinfo errors on boot are often symptoms of a broken Glibc because
> it is usually the first dynamic library loaded by the system (when
> init loads sh -> bash, which uses ncurses).

Or a broken /etc/ld.so.cache , which is fixed by running ldconfig.  This
happened to me too.  I was using Freshen to update Xorg via Compile, it
asked me what to do with /etc/ld.so.cache, which was described as
updated settings. I said to use new, Xorg compile went on for a while
and then got interrupted by accident (similar to if I had pressed
control-C, I think).  Freshen (or some process called by it) then went
and updated all the settings (I think it said it was doing that,
anyway).  Afterwards, my /etc/ld.so.cache was an empty file, so
everything (dynamic) was broken until I managed to run ldconfig.

Isaac
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