Cannot open shared object file errors preventing boot up

[Rick Stevens]

Graeme Nichols wrote:
> Hello Folks, I don't know if I have been hacked or have simply managed 
> to corrupt something but I cannot start any apps. and cannot really boot 
> the system.
> 
> The errors I am receiving all say 'error while loading shared library 
> <some library: cannot open shared object file: no such file or directory"
> 
> While trying to boot the first error encountered says: "Starting xfs: 
> xfs: error while loading shared library libXfont.so.1: cannot open 
> shared object file: no such file or directory."
> 
> The when the graphical login screen is trying to load I get the error 
> "Id X respawning too fast. Disaabled for 5 minutes"
> 
> If I manage to boot into run level 3 then try to run 'startx' I get 
> about 6 lines of errors similar to the following: " Xauth: error while 
> loading shared libraries: libXmuu.so.1; cannot open shared etc. etc. No 
> such file or directory"
> 
> I was running mrtg at the time and it failed with the same type of error.
> 
> The only other thing I was doing at the time was installing epiphany 
> using the package manager, which finished normally but epiphany would 
> not run. Said it was starting but it bombed out. Trying to start it from 
> a terminal resulted in a similar error to all the above.
> 
> Help Please... I'm sending this from Win 98, not good.

Some of your X environment got stomped on.  Boot up in run level 3 or
single user mode, dig up your CDs and run

	rpm -Uvh --force XFree86-devel*.rpm

Hopefully that should fix it unless other bits got munched, too.
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