Horrible problem following crash

maxrudolph · n00b Joined: 27 Feb 2003 Posts: 12

Hello Everyone,
I am a recent Gentoo convert and I've been loving it up until about 5 minutes ago when my freshly compiled installation of KDE 3.1 completely locked up with no keyboard or mouse response and forced me to do a hard reboot. Upon reboot, I can do almost nothing, and am presented with the message:

xauth: error while loading shared libraries: libXmuu.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

or a variation thereof (with a different library name depending on what I've tried to run) when I try to execute just about any command including 'emerge', 'kdm', and 'startx'. Any help would be appreciated. I've no idea what to do!

Thank You,
Max Rudolph

BillyD · Guru Joined: 05 May 2002 Posts: 323 Location: Australia

Boot up from a rescue (install CD) for starters, and see what you can find out from there.
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hielvc · Posted: Thu Feb 27, 2003 3:58 pm Post subject:

Yes I learned the hardway staop and reboot with cd or whatever and fsck.ext2 -f /dev/h?? or fsck.??? for what ever type partion you have. Use the force option. I leanred the had way as in goody system is dead because filesystem has so many errors lets reinstall:

hiel

maxrudolph · n00b Joined: 27 Feb 2003 Posts: 12

Thank you for your help! I booted off an install cd and I've run a reiserfsck. No corruptions were found. I have found a problem with /proc/6/exe. The symbolic link appears to be broken and has no target. Does anybody know where it's supposed to point? If indeed a whole bunch of links are broken, would I be right in thinking that a full reinstall might be easier than fixing this problem manually?

max

fifo · Guru Joined: 14 Jan 2003 Posts: 437

It's normal for /proc/6/exe not to point anywhere. In fact /proc isn't physically present on your disk at all, it's a virtual filesystem created by the kernel.

As for your booting problem, I assume you're running a display manager. Does it boot ok if you remove xdm from the default runlevel (or boot in single mode)? If that works, then I'd try remerging xfree and see if that fixes the missing libraries.

maxrudolph · n00b Joined: 27 Feb 2003 Posts: 12

Thanks for clearing up the /proc/6/exe matter. I already tried emerging xfree, as i can boot to a prompt perfectly. However, I cannot run 'emerge' as I get the error:

python2.2: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory.

Thanks for your help

max

thraxil · n00b Joined: 04 Apr 2003 Posts: 46 Location: nyc

you should be able to fix things by just running ldconfig. see this thread