Date: Sun, 02 May 2004 21:59:49 -0400 From: Joshua Boyd <boydjd@adelphia.net> To: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: missing libncurses.so.5 and other lib* Message-ID: <4095A795.8070108@adelphia.net> In-Reply-To: <20040503013317.GA70955@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> References: <27069625$1083545780409598b48f99f4.24297031@config22.schlund.de> <20040503013317.GA70955@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
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Steve Kargl wrote: >On Mon, May 03, 2004 at 03:02:01AM +0200, haig@sylac.de wrote: > > >> as they were working nicely. >>any ideas how I can get a shell ? >>or another solution ? >> >> > >If you have a /rescue directory (which you should), then >boot into single user mode and specify /rescue/sh as your >shell. Next, mount your filesystems with /rescue/mount >and restore the missing libraries from your backup tapes. > > > Yes, I'm sure that he has backup tapes for his laptop. *rolls eyes* I ha da problem similar to this where libraries were "missing" but instead the librariers were there but the .so.randomnumber wasn't there. Get into single user mode with your rescue floppy, mount your file systems, and you can try to symlink .so.5 to whatever the correct .so file is. This is just a dirty fix though, and you'll probably want to rebuild from source like you said once you can actually get into single user mode so that you don't have this problem with all of your libraries.
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