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Hi, guys!!! It's my first post in our slack board.
Last night, I used swaret to upgrade my slack (10.0). But when it installed new packages, console was printing out "/sbin/agetty: error loading shared lib xlibX11.so.6".
I knew that 'cause slack don't check dependence and i got that error
And now i can't start my slack
Anyone can help me rescue him?
Sorry for my English
Originally posted by AnhTuan Hi, guys!!! It's my first post in our slack board.
Last night, I used swaret to upgrade my slack (10.0). But when it installed new packages, console was printing out "/sbin/agetty: error loading shared lib xlibX11.so.6".
I knew that 'cause slack don't check dependence and i got that error
And now i can't start my slack
Anyone can help me rescue him?
Sorry for my English :D :cry:
Welcome to LQ!
Why do you say " i can't start my slack?" How do you try to start Slack?
What happens when you do this? What are the error messages?
I think that Slack boots normally and then when it should open login prompt in different tty, he gets his error message (so no login prompt) cause Slack can't run agetty...
I think that the esaiest way to solve this is to take a Linux live CD, boot from it and chroot your Slack to add the missing library
Thanks for your reply!!!
To Chinaman:
Oliv's post said all my problem. But i don't know what "different tty" is.
Yes, now my slack is no loginpromt when i start him.
To Oliv:
Can you explain for me that problem?
And how to i rescue my slack with a live cd (i had a knoppix)
Thanks!!!
So agetty doesn't need xlibX11.so.6 shared library... And so your problem is stranger than I thought
Do you start with X or with a text console? If you start with X, try to type: Ctrl+Alt+F6 and see if you can login... If you succeed, you'll be able to repair your Slack i.e. download the missing library
and don't even have that library in my system, so I've waited
for your response. I believe it's something with the programs
that swaret installed, rather than something already on the
system.
Oliv' - I can't help with swaret, because I compile everything
from source and have never used it - but it seems that a log
of what swaret d/led would be helpful in tracking this error.
Edit: Were you updating Xorg during this swaret session?
To Oliv:
I'll feel happy if i get terminal.
Now when i start my computer, slack start until that error message print out. And i can't do something.
To Chinaman:
You're right. I saw swaret upgrade X on my system.
I think i must use a live cd and copy that file to path.
Oliv and Chinaman, thank you very much
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