On Sun, 5 Oct 2003 23:21:38 -0700 Bernd <bernd@covenantmail.net> wrote:
On Sunday, 05 October, 2003 20:45, GarUlbricht7@netscape.net wrote: <snip>
Bernd, assuming the machine is still running, can you get it into "single user mode" by switch to "Ctrl-Alt-F1), log in as root, and do 'init 1"; change directory to where you have glibc-2.2.5-152.rpm (maybe you can put it in /home by itself) and then do "rpm -Uvh--oldpackage *.rpm
By being in single user mode you may overcome your seg fault problem, at least it worked for me in a similar situation. YMMV. (can't remember if we had to add a "force") If it does install, don't forget to do "SuSEconfig" [and I usually do a "ldconfig -v" too]
The machine seems to be running fine, except for the fact that I keep getting errors when trying to install anything. No go on the fix though! I'm still getting the seg fault. Other thoughts?
boot from a CD, mount your system and "execute" manually what the rpm should do... I'm not sure if and how you can change the installation path prefix of a built rpm (man rpm?)... but chrooting in your old system shouldn't help with the problem of segfaulting cos you'll start to use the installed lib if not yet loaded (mmm worth a try anyway). But beware since I'm not a sysadmin but just a humble programmer <g>, everytime I succede in such kind of things I feel like George Clooney in ER... but that's just a telefilm, not a production box.