Hi,
I attempted to ugprade glibc & glibc-devel and ended up removing them entirely by accident. *idiot*
What are the steps needed to get glibc back onto my system. Absolutely nothing is working at the moment, rpm, yum, etc. I presume I'm going to have to boot from a rescue CD of some kind.
If someone could outline how to do this, or point me to some docs I would be most grateful. (CentOS 4.3)
LC.
On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 13:53 +1000, geekylucas wrote:
Hi,
I attempted to ugprade glibc & glibc-devel and ended up removing them entirely by accident. *idiot*
What are the steps needed to get glibc back onto my system. Absolutely nothing is working at the moment, rpm, yum, etc. I presume I'm going to have to boot from a rescue CD of some kind.
If someone could outline how to do this, or point me to some docs I would be most grateful. (CentOS 4.3)
---- copy them over from another system running CentOS 4.3 (isn't that a bit old now?)
Craig
On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 01:53:08PM +1000, geekylucas alleged:
Hi,
I attempted to ugprade glibc & glibc-devel and ended up removing them entirely by accident. *idiot*
What are the steps needed to get glibc back onto my system. Absolutely nothing is working at the moment, rpm, yum, etc. I presume I'm going to have to boot from a rescue CD of some kind.
If someone could outline how to do this, or point me to some docs I would be most grateful. (CentOS 4.3)
If you are doing anything other than 'yum update', then you are doing it wrong :)
Just boot a centos 4.3 cd/dvd into rescue mode, mount your filesystems rw, and install the glibc package from the CD with 'rpm -r /path'.
And don't forget to update your system as the current is 4.5.
Dear,
Please tell me is ur operating system working or not? I mean can u able to insert the CD and install the glibc through the CD?
Regards,
Umair Shakil ETD
On 9/12/07, geekylucas geekylucas@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
I attempted to ugprade glibc & glibc-devel and ended up removing them entirely by accident. *idiot*
What are the steps needed to get glibc back onto my system. Absolutely nothing is working at the moment, rpm, yum, etc. I presume I'm going to have to boot from a rescue CD of some kind.
If someone could outline how to do this, or point me to some docs I would be most grateful. (CentOS 4.3)
LC. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
geekylucas wrote:
Hi,
I attempted to ugprade glibc & glibc-devel and ended up removing them entirely by accident. *idiot*
What are the steps needed to get glibc back onto my system. Absolutely nothing is working at the moment, rpm, yum, etc. I presume I'm going to have to boot from a rescue CD of some kind.
If someone could outline how to do this, or point me to some docs I would be most grateful. (CentOS 4.3)
Copy the rpms you need to reinstall onto another rpm type system - any somewhat current rpm type distro will do. Run rpm2cpio to extract the rpm into a cpio package. Take that cpio pkg to your busted machine and cpio extract the files. Things should then work OK. You should then be able to force rpm install the real rpm.
I've done this twice, a whacked rpm and glibc - always used / as the working dir on the busted machine. Worked like a charm.
geekylucas wrote:
Hi,
I attempted to ugprade glibc & glibc-devel and ended up removing them entirely by accident. *idiot*
What are the steps needed to get glibc back onto my system. Absolutely nothing is working at the moment, rpm, yum, etc. I presume I'm going to have to boot from a rescue CD of some kind.
If someone could outline how to do this, or point me to some docs I would be most grateful. (CentOS 4.3)
LC. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
You should be able to boot the install CD in rescue mode and chroot to your install, just use yum or rpm to reinstall the packages then. RPM also has a chroot option so you can just set the path to wherever your drive is mounted.
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