Problem after reinstall RH 8.0 (fwd)

[chioufd sas upenn edu (Fu-Dong Chiou)]

Can anyone help out with this problem?

Also, I cannot even run chown, and I suspect this is all related.  Would 
appreciate any help.  Thanks!

Chip

Fu-Dong Chiou wrote:
> From chioufd sas upenn edu  Sat May 31 13:02:14 2003
> From: chioufd sas upenn edu (Fu-Dong Chiou)
> Message-Id: <200305311702 h4VH2BL23290 mail1 sas upenn edu>
> Subject: Problem after reinstall RH 8.0
> To: redhat-install-list redhat com
> Date: Sat, 31 May 2003 13:02:11 -0400 (EDT)
> Cc: chioufd sas upenn edu (Fu-Dong Chiou)
> In-Reply-To: <3EC908B0 1010607 ion le ac uk> from "Nigel Wade" at May 19, 2003 05:39:12 pm
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> Hi, 
> 
> I am having a series of problems with my RH 8.0 on a Sony Vaio V505AC 
> (2.2 GHz) laptop.  
> 
> This is what happened.  I tried to run ghost to back up my XP partition, 
> using the virtual partition method.  It corrupted my MBR, and I could no 
> longer have a boot loader to boot into linux.  So, I decided to run RH 
> 8.0 installer again and see if I can reinstall lilo by "upgrading" the 
> existing installataion.  It didn't work, because no kernel was installed, 
> so I felt I was forced to do a minimum install again (while keeping all 
> existing installation intact).
> 
> After the installation, a few bad things happened.  A can no longer boot 
> to runlevel 5, because "x is respawning too fast".  There is also a 
> waning during boot and shutdown that says glibc 2.3.2 is missing.  While 
> trying to figure out this problem, I also discovered that rpm is not 
> working either.  I know I installed the newest version of glibc, but all 
> I get running rpm is this:
> 
> /usr/lib/rpm/rpmq: /lib/i686/libpthread.so.0: version 'GLIBC_2.3.2' not 
> found (required by /lib/librt.so.1)
> 
> Is this problem possible to fix?  What should I do to fix this problem?
> Thanks!
> 
> Best wishes,
> Chip 
> 


Best wishes,
Chip