Re: Severe problem (cannot boot) after upgrading glibc and glibc-common

[Alan Hodgson <ahodgson simkin ca>]

On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 08:33:05PM +0200, sting sting wrote:
> I get the follwoing errors at start:
> (befor reaching Login)
> NIT:Id"1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
> INIT:Id"2" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
> INIT:Id"3" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
> INIT:Id"4" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
> INIT:Id"5" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
> INIT:Id"6" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
> INIT:Id"4" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
> INIT: no more processes left in this runlevel.
> 
> 
> also power off/power on did not solve the problem.
> I cannot user that machine currently.
> What to do ?


I've had this happen to 2 of the 3 machines I've installed RedHat 9 on.  (1
using apt-get to do the upgrade, 1 using just rpm -Uvh as per the poster).

I had to mount the drive in another machine and use rpm --root to remove the
multiple copies of glibc that ended up installed and then install the correct
one.

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