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Aurenna
08-24-2002, 07:55 AM
My computer crashed so I restarted it. I got the message :id "3" respawning too fast disabled for 5 minutes /sbin mingetty:error while loading shared libraries:libc.so.6:cannot open shared object file: no such file or directory and it said so about 30 times!!

then it said Init :no more processes left on this runlevel.
and I cant go on.
:(

ntt.
08-24-2002, 08:01 AM
Well libc.so.6 is the shared library that contains some basic c functions or something like that - suffice to say it's important.
Either use another linux system on that machine to mount the partition and restore that file, or reinstall. You could try a floppy linux distribution to repair it - there are loads of them around. Try fsck /dev/hdxx (replace hdxx with whatever partition you're using) to check the disk first, then have a look for that file (probably in /lib).

mdwatts
08-24-2002, 08:34 AM
Just to let you know that I have removed your crosspost of this question in the Soffware forum.

In future, please pick the most appropriate forum for your question and only post once.

Thank-you for understanding.

Aurenna
08-24-2002, 08:37 AM
Yesterday I made a rescue and boot disk.Can I use that?
How do I know wich file is corrupt and has to be removed, and how do I remove it?

Do you know how this error could've got there in the first place?(to try to take precaution next time)
I did some networking yesterday could it be that?

Aurenna
08-24-2002, 09:09 AM
I managed to login in a "rescue" state.
I went to /lib and saw a whole bunch of red colered files are they all corrupted?The only blue ones were modules security and YaST.What can I do?

mdwatts
08-24-2002, 12:06 PM
The red colored files are most likely symlinks from the original files. I would suggest you leave them alone.

Did you run fsck /dev/hda# as ntt suggested?