I am working with another person repairing a damaged RH 8.0 system. Now that we know what is wrong, how could this happen becomes an interesting question. Here is the exact scenario. This is a laptop loaded with RH 8.0 and a number of diagnostic tools. Up2date had just been run and the machine shut down. The machine was booted the next day and brought up to the login prompt, but no login was done. The machine was unplugged from external power and went to battery power and was taken to a lab. A priority situation arose and the laptop was left in this state till it's battery wore out several hours later. After recharging the battery, the machine would not boot. After digging around after booting with the CD, we found the problem was the soft links in /lib were corrupted. The link contents were corrupted differently on each link, but letters were changed. For example, on many links, the 'i' in lib was changed to a ')'. The 's' in .so was often changed to a '3'. Telling the CD to upgrade the system does no good because the check against the RPM files says nothing needs to be changed and nothing gets done. So we are going through the links and fixing them one at a time. Has anyone seen this before? Is there any automated way to recover this without wiping out the partitions? -- Robert E. Styma Principal Engineer (DMTS) AG Communication Systems, Phoenix - A subsidiary of Lucent Email: stymar@xxxxxxxx Phone: 623-582-7323 FAX: 623-581-4884 Company: http://www.agcs.com Personal: http://www.swlink.net/~styma -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
