Problem with rpm.

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

> 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