Re: potato broke my everything!!
when i get to running dpkg-deb there is an error: libdpkg.so.0 cannont open shared
object file: no such file or directory, any other ideas?
Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Aug 1999, Wonko wrote:
>
> > i reinstalled linux using the base floppies and decided instead of
> > apt-getting slink i'd go straight for potato. i updated the packages in
> > dselect and then selected what packages to install after d/ling for 2
> > days (250Mb) it finally finished but there were some errors in the end
> > of install, i did update packages again and then i had to d/l 15mb more
> > after that i did config and there was an error something like cannot
> > execute script apt -configure. i shutdown (shutdown -h now didn't work
> > but i payed no attention) when i restarted there was an error saying
>
> You have been bitten by the latest bash bug in potato, sorry :< The best
> recovery solution is to get a rescue disk, mount your hard drive and then
> use dpkg-deb or ar to extract bash by hand. From the rescue disk these
> commands might work:
>
> mount /dev/hd?? /mnt
> cd mnt
> export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=./lib/
> usr/bin/dpkg-deb --extract var/cache/apt/archives/bash*.deb /mnt/
> sync
> cd /
> umount /mnt
> sync
> <reboot>
>
> I haven't tested exactly that sequence from the rescue disk, but I have
> verified that the crucial command, dpkg-deb, does work fine.
>
> Jason
>
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