[gobolinux-users] messed up system :(

[Kenneth Marken]

> From: Isaac Dupree [isaacdupree at charter.net]
> 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.
> 

im guessing its the latter that happened to me. but as i think someone asked, the problem is solved now. it was mostly a case of finding out what could be wrong and then finding the right tool for the job. and thats what i love about linux, no problem is left without a potential fix.