Here is the error that was occurring when I attempted to reboot, as I describe below:
/bin/sh: error in loading shared libraries : undefined symbol: rl_ignore_some_completions_function Dan wrote: > > Greetings-- > > I just made an attempt at upgrading my installed libc6 using > libc6_2.0.7.19981211-6.deb. I have a 2.0 complete install, but I was > going to try GnuCash, which requires guile 1.3, which requires a few > things that are newer than Deb2.0. > > Anyway, it didn't go so well, apparently, since some of the other libs > that guile depends on didn't install due to errors, along the lines of > "unable to link" or somesuch (I am embarrassed to say I did not write > the message down, as I was rather frantic in short order). > > Having updated libc6, I didn't know whether a reboot was in order, since > that is a fairly important library for just about everything. Well, > this was a bad idea, since my machine hung rebooting, and then nothing > would run once the kernel finished starting. Couldn't log in, rescue > disk doesn't have dpkg, and I was sorta stuck, and sort of frantic > (moreso, in fact). > > So I just reinstalled and reconfigured the base package using the debian > installer, which turned out to be sort of okay... it had the desired > effect of replacing libc6 with an older version, and it left almost > everything else intact. (Actually, smail won't run anymore... it just > bails on startup, despite the fact that the config files seem to be > there... any thoughts?) > > The question, then, is what to do NEXT TIME I do something dumb like > this... how can I avoid getting stuck in this situation, given that I > have a 2.0 CD... > > Any suggestions appreciated, regarding the best way to backtrack when > libc6 upgrades go bad, or how to get smail to run again. > > Thanks > Dan Hugo > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null