Re: Help Needed ****Badly****

[David O Torrey <tj@xxxxxxx>]

I'd recommend against ever uninstalling something that provides libc.
'rpm' itself is linked against that library, as are most other
fundamental system tools.

If it's really shot, I'd be surprised if your machine boots to something
useful.  Your best bet is probably to boot from an appropriate rescue CD
and either copy the libc.so.6 file from the CD or from another working
machine.  Either way, once you get your PC back up, make sure you verify
or even force install the proper RPM for libc so everything agrees.

Thanks,
Dave

On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 16:28 -0400, S Gowtham wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> One (probably the easiest way, in my opinion) is to do the
> following :
> 
> 1. Login as root
> 
> 2. yum provides libc.so.6
>    This should list the package that provided libc.so.6
> 
> 3. yum remove 'that-package'
> 
> 4. yum install 'that-package'
> 
> This, I believe, should clean up your mess.
> 
> -Gowtham
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, 19 Oct 2005, Gaurav Kulkarni wrote:
> 
> | Hi,
> |         A little while back I had mailed about the Recovery disk for
> | Fedora core 2. I found them.
> | 
> |         What has happened is that the library file /lib/libc.so.6 has
> | become corrupt. I dont think that there is a back up of the file
> | on the system. The reason that this has become corrupt is that I
> | think that I might have over written this with some other version
> | of the file. I am Running Fedora Core 2.6
> | 
> |         Is there some way to come out of this mess? This system is the web
> | and database server for my project, so I am really desperate.
> | 
> | Thanks a Lot for any pointers that you can give me,
> | 
> | Gaurav Kulkarni.
> | MS EE.
> | 
> 
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David O Torrey <tj@xxxxxxx>
Michigan Technological University