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.