[CentOS] What broke my box ??

[jkinz at kinz.org]

On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 06:04:00PM -0800, Michael A. Peters wrote:
> CentOS 5.2 64-bit
> 
> I needed some space.
> 
> I have a hard drive that had an old Linux install I don't use anymore. 

Lets call this your auxiliary drive.

> So I edited /etc/fstab and removed the entries for it (entries I only 
> needed so I could get data off it).

Which /etc/fstab did you edit? the one on the auxiliary drive or
the one on the primary drive? 

> Then I edited /boot/grub.conf and removed the lines to boot it.

Which grub.conf did you modify? the one on your auxiliary drive
or the one on your primary drive? 

> Then I rebooted.

What drive did you boot from? the auxiliary drive or the primary? 


> It booted but a bunch of services failed because libstdc++ could not be 
> found.
> 
> I logged into a console and tried to verify libstdc++ and that failed, I 
> guess rpm depends upon it.
> 
> touch /forcefsck && shutdown -r now
> 
> After booting - no fsck errors, but libstdc++ error when starting some 
> services.
> 
> cd /usr/lib64 - the shared library was there.
> 
> I looked in /etc/ld.so.conf and /etc/ld.so.conf.d/ just in case for some 
> idiotic reason I had added a library path on the other drive - nope.
> 
> I then ran /sbin/ldconfig - and then rpm --verify worked.
> rebooted and all services started.
> 
> So - clearly the library cache got borked and needed to be rebuilt.
> 
> The question is what borked it?
> Anyone seen this before?
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