I have run into an interesting problem. I have a Sony Vaio PCG-F480 laptop that was happily running Redhat 9 until i came home this evening to see not only was there 4 updates available (new kernel rpms) from this morning that i had seen before loeaving for work, but there was an httpd and mod_ssl update. I thought, kewl, i will ncftp down all the latest rpms and do the updates...well the downloads went well, good speed, but i found there was 6 additional files in i386 that came down (glibc rpms) that i didnt notice on the rhn-applet notification. So since i had already grabbed them, i installed them as well. So, i decided to reboot, and when the machine came back up, it loaded the kernel ok, but when it went to go into init 5, it gave the following message: INIT: Entering runlevel: 5 INIT: Id "1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes INIT: Id "2" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes INIT: Id "3" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes INIT: Id "4" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes INIT: Id "5" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes INIT: Id "6" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes INIT: Id "x" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes INIT: no more processes left in this runlevel My thoughts were, this resulted from the glibc rpm installs, and i needed to roll-back the glibc rpms to the last working version, however i am unsure the best approach to do this. I can bring the machine up using the survival cd, and can get the root and / partitions mounted, but under /mnt/ so i am sure RPM would fail at that point. Can someone give me a pointer or two here as to how i can (re)mount these partitions so as to do a roll-back of an rpm?!? Maybe i am not using the survival cd properly, as it does present a choice of how to mount the partitions (i.e. read-only, read-write, chroot, and not at all). In read-write mode i end up initially with /var/mnt/boot and /var/mnt/rootfs. Or is there ANY other way to fix this problem? I have never seen a machine do this before, and it rather startled me...lol ANY help would be greatly appreciated. Other than the above issue, i have loved Redhat 9 on the laptop, installed and runs quite well, and looks very nice. -- Michael B. Weiner, Linux+, Linux+ SME Systems Administrator/Partner The UserFriendly Network (UFN) Linux Registered User #94900 Have you been counted? http://counter.li.org ----------------------------------------- This email was sent using SquirrelMail. "Webmail for nuts!" http://squirrelmail.org/ Random Thought: --------------
