Help urgently needed before there's a blackout!
Deboo <deboo@debian.elitemail.org> said on Fri, 20 Feb 2004 01:45:14 +0530 (IST):
> I installed a package and along with it, libncurses5 of testing, which dd
> not get installed but removed my woody libncurses5 and probably glibc too.
> Now I am not able to run most commands nor able to even login. Would
> someone be kind enough to tell me what can I do in this situation? Once I
> logoff or reboot, I will be doomed ... and I have had a warning this could
> happen automatic, since the lights here are fluctuation, meaning there
> could be a blackout. So can someone please help?
>
> I do not know what exact version of glibc is needed, I mean what package,
> or I could fetch from packages.debian.org
>
>
> This is what I get when I try to login:
>
> -bash: /lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.3' not found (required by
> /lib/libncurses.so.5)
Exporting a NFS filesystem with no_root_squash by any chance?
Yeah, probably not, but I did manage to save a system once with just
this situation :)
If you are in trouble, never reboot :)
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