PROBLEM: libc.so.1 missing!

Brian Russ bruss%odin at ucsd.edu
Mon Oct 8 07:30:00 AEST 1990


System: SparcStation 330, running SunOS 4.0.3

I wrote a shell script that involved trying to get X11R4 up.  In the
script I had the following:

	mv /usr/lib/libc.so.1.3 /usr/lib/libc.so.1.3.save
	mv /usr/lib/libc.sa.1.3 /usr/lib/libc.sa.1.3.save

intending to move them back at the conclusion of the script.  (I know very
well that this is NOT the correct way to install X11 -- that's not the
issue here).

The script aborted, and I rebooted.  Now, I can't log in at all!
Immediately after typing the username, I get "libc.so.1: not found" and
get booted back to the login: prompt.  I tried to boot single- user, which
succeeded, but I can't move the two files back since, in single-user, the
file systems are apparently mounted read-only.  I DON'T want to get out
dump tapes if I don't have to.  All I need to is rename those two files so
that libc is ok (these files are more important to the system than I
realized!).  Is there anything I can do?  Email please, and the sooner the
better! :-)

Brian Russ
CSE Department, UC San Diego
..!sdcsvax!bruss	bruss at beowulf.ucsd.edu



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