[ale] [ale-admin] Urgent Reply Requested

[Wandered Inn]

Is there a list called ale-admin?  Must be, cause I'm getting these.  I
found no reference to it on the ale site though.  Whatever, seems like
there have been a couple of these come through.  I do have possible
solution to your problem outlined below.

"Randy D. Johnson" wrote:
> 
> Help!  My Linux system is not booting and I have exhausted all
> rescue/boot options I know of.  The error is as follows:
> 
> init: error in loading shared libraries: /lib/libwcsmbs.so.0: undefined
> symbol: _nl_current_LC_NUMERIC
> 
> The error occurred after loading "libwcsmbs-0.0.5-2.i386.rpm" file from
> rpmfind.net for the HDBENCH program.  I can no longer boot into Linux in
> order to remove the errant file(s) which I suspect are
> /lib/libwcsmbs.so.0 & /usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib/libcsmb.so.0.  How can I
> recovery?  Fortunately I have a NT drive to send this email from.

I'll assume you're running a Red Hat version, because of the rpm
installation, although that's not a guarantee.  I'm not going to say
this is the best solution, but it's worked for me on more than one
occasion.

I've never been able to get a RH rescue disk to work.  What I have been
able to do is take a Slackware boot/root set and boot my machine.  Once
you do this, you can mount your old /usr to a temp mount point and
remove the files.  I'm not saying that I think removing the files will
solve your problem, you said that. :)  I don't know.  But the above
solution has worked for me on at least three occasions.

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