CentOS - Jan 2008 - CentOS4.4 - Not booting up

Hi,
  I've been using an CentOS4.4 version.
All was well till 2 days back. Suddenly when the PC was booted-up, it
wouldn't  bootup. It gets stuck displaying the following message.

exec of init (/sbin/init) failed !!!: 80
umount /initrd/dev failed: 2
Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!

I entered the rescue mode and attempted
chroot /mnt/sysimage
It spitted an error

"chroot : cannot execute /bin/sh: Accessing a corrupted shared
library."

I tried to google-out the problem in vain

Any clues as to whats the problem and the remedy?

TIA,
Balaji

Balaji wrote:
> Hi,
>  I've been using an CentOS4.4 version.
I dont know what the solution to your issue is - you didnt provide 
enough info to diagnose or even propose any fix's - however, WHY are you 
running such an old version of the distro ? you really should be doing 
yum updates and keeping your machine patched.

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On Jan 21, 2008 9:30 AM, Balaji <balajisundar at midascomm.com>
wrote:
> Hi,
>   I've been using an CentOS4.4 version.
> All was well till 2 days back. Suddenly when the PC was booted-up, it
> wouldn't  bootup. It gets stuck displaying the following message.
>
> exec of init (/sbin/init) failed !!!: 80
> umount /initrd/dev failed: 2
> Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
>
> I entered the rescue mode and attempted
> chroot /mnt/sysimage
> It spitted an error
>
> "chroot : cannot execute /bin/sh: Accessing a corrupted shared
library."
It look like some of your file are corrupted.

On a working machine :

# ldd /bin/sh
        linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0x002a4000)
        libtermcap.so.2 => /lib/libtermcap.so.2 (0x00955000)
        libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x0089c000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/i686/nosegneg/libc.so.6 (0x00757000)
        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x00735000)
[root at max udev]# rpm -qf /lib/libtermcap.so.2 /lib/libdl.so.2
/lib/i686/nosegneg/libc.so.6 /lib/ld-linux.so.2
libtermcap-2.0.8-46.1
glibc-2.5-18.el5_1.1
glibc-2.5-18.el5_1.1
glibc-2.5-18.el5_1.1

You shoud try to check these package :

# rpm -V --root /mnt/sysimage libtermcap glibc
and be ready to resinstall them if required

# rpm -ivh --force --root /mnt/sysimage /yoursource/libtermcap-*.rpm
/yoursource/glibc-*.rpm

Then you should be able to make your chroot

In anyway identify all your corrupted files using

# rpm -Va

And reinstall the corrupted packages


Regards


>
> I tried to google-out the problem in vain
>
> Any clues as to whats the problem and the remedy?
>
> TIA,
> Balaji
>
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