Problems with slink Debian 2.1
I have tried to install Debian 2.1 for Intel Architecture from two CD's I
bought from LinuxMall (the Official release, slink). I am able to install
it, but with many problems when running it using the 2.0.36 kernel that is
automatically installed. I often get messages like: "bash: error loading
shared library, undefined symbol <some symbol>." Sometimes it tells me which
library, and libreadline is one that sometimes has a problem. Once I get
this error, no matter what I do I eventually fall into a message about
typing root password for maintenance or press ctrl-D to restart. But the
machine usually won't respond to the root password or ctrl-D. It won't even
respond to ctrl-alt-del to reboot, and I must restart by pressing the reset
switch, and this causes an unclean unmount and forces an fsck when it
reboots. I also get seg faults often when running dselect, dpkg, and other
programs (make during builds), and have to reboot to get the offending
program to work again. I have reinstalled the system from scratch a couple
of times (reformatting the Linux partition) and I still get the same
problems almost from the start. On one installation attempt from scratch
(reformatting root partition), I ran into the error in loading shared
library even before I ever got to login to the first user account (i.e.
during the installation process itself). I have 64 MB ram and a celeron
processor, with a single root partition and a 130 MB swap partition. I
didn't have any problems like this when I was running Slakware Linux 2.0.x
kernels. What is happening?
Chuck Zmudzinski
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