System crash Help!!!

[Tom Maszerowski <tommasz macconnect com>]

All,

  I had a system blow-up due to a failed install attempt with StarOffice 
5.0. It wanted to redo the loader to make it a newer version which then 
had a problem with my older libs. I'm back up but limping. There are two 
weird problems:

1) depmod -a in rc.sysinit fails with: modprobe: not an ELF file
   - system is in cripple mode due to modules not loading, how due I 
determine what
     it's complaining about and rebuild the dependency list? The 
dependency file itself got
     deleted and depmod won't build a new one. I'm sending this from my 
old Mac.

2) CDROM access is working oddly, an ls -l on /dev/cdrom returns: 
          lrwxrwxrwx     1 root    root      3 May 25 1998 /dev/cdrom -> 
hdd
   - is this normal? I have two IDE hard drives on hda and hdc so the the 
hdd is probably           
     okay butwmcdplay (WindowMaker dock app) now always says there is a 
data disk in the     
     CDROM drive even when it's empty. It's a normal IDE CDROM on the 
secondary IDE chain. I 
     can use other utilities to play audio CD's.

This is RedHat 5.0.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Tom.

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