CentOS - Sep 2007 - Accidentally removed glibc & glibc-devel :: Help

Hi,

I attempted to ugprade glibc & glibc-devel and ended up removing them
entirely by accident.  *idiot*

What are the steps needed to get glibc back onto my system.
Absolutely nothing is working at the moment, rpm, yum, etc.  I presume
I'm going to have to boot from a rescue CD of some kind.

If someone could outline how to do this, or point me to some docs I
would be most grateful.  (CentOS 4.3)

LC.

On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 13:53 +1000, geekylucas wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I attempted to ugprade glibc & glibc-devel and ended up removing them
> entirely by accident.  *idiot*
> 
> What are the steps needed to get glibc back onto my system.
> Absolutely nothing is working at the moment, rpm, yum, etc.  I presume
> I'm going to have to boot from a rescue CD of some kind.
> 
> If someone could outline how to do this, or point me to some docs I
> would be most grateful.  (CentOS 4.3)
----
copy them over from another system running CentOS 4.3 (isn't that a bit
old now?)

Craig

On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 01:53:08PM +1000, geekylucas
alleged:
> Hi,
> 
> I attempted to ugprade glibc & glibc-devel and ended up removing them
> entirely by accident.  *idiot*
> 
> What are the steps needed to get glibc back onto my system.
> Absolutely nothing is working at the moment, rpm, yum, etc.  I presume
> I'm going to have to boot from a rescue CD of some kind.
> 
> If someone could outline how to do this, or point me to some docs I
> would be most grateful.  (CentOS 4.3)
If you are doing anything other than 'yum update', then you are doing it
wrong :)

Just boot a centos 4.3 cd/dvd into rescue mode, mount your filesystems rw, and
install the glibc package from the CD with 'rpm -r /path'.

And don't forget to update your system as the current is 4.5.

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Dear,

Please tell me is ur operating system working or not? I mean can u able to
insert the CD
and install the glibc through the CD?

Regards,

Umair Shakil
ETD

On 9/12/07, geekylucas <geekylucas at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I attempted to ugprade glibc & glibc-devel and ended up removing them
> entirely by accident.  *idiot*
>
> What are the steps needed to get glibc back onto my system.
> Absolutely nothing is working at the moment, rpm, yum, etc.  I presume
> I'm going to have to boot from a rescue CD of some kind.
>
> If someone could outline how to do this, or point me to some docs I
> would be most grateful.  (CentOS 4.3)
>
> LC.
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geekylucas wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I attempted to ugprade glibc & glibc-devel and ended up removing them
> entirely by accident.  *idiot*
>
> What are the steps needed to get glibc back onto my system.
> Absolutely nothing is working at the moment, rpm, yum, etc.  I presume
> I'm going to have to boot from a rescue CD of some kind.
>
> If someone could outline how to do this, or point me to some docs I
> would be most grateful.  (CentOS 4.3)
>
>   
Copy the rpms you need to reinstall onto another rpm type system - any
somewhat current rpm type distro will do. Run rpm2cpio to extract the
rpm into a cpio package. Take that cpio pkg to your busted machine and
cpio extract the files. Things should then work OK. You should then be 
able to force rpm install the real rpm.

I've done this twice, a whacked rpm and glibc -
always used / as the working dir on the busted machine. Worked like a charm.


-- 
Toby Bluhm
Midwest Instruments Inc.
30825 Aurora Road Suite 100
Solon Ohio 44139
440-424-2250

geekylucas wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I attempted to ugprade glibc & glibc-devel and ended up removing them
> entirely by accident.  *idiot*
>
> What are the steps needed to get glibc back onto my system.
> Absolutely nothing is working at the moment, rpm, yum, etc.  I presume
> I'm going to have to boot from a rescue CD of some kind.
>
> If someone could outline how to do this, or point me to some docs I
> would be most grateful.  (CentOS 4.3)
>
> LC.
> _______________________________________________
> CentOS mailing list
> CentOS at centos.org
> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
>   
You should be able to boot the install CD in rescue mode and chroot to 
your install, just use yum or rpm to reinstall the packages then.  RPM 
also has a chroot option so you can just set the path to wherever your 
drive is mounted.