libdl.so.2 error

[Saurabh Barve]

Hi,

I did not want to put an "URGENT" label in the subject but this is quite 
urgent!

I had one IDE port on my mobo get fried due to a power surge. I am now 
using a PCI-IDE card to hook up my two hard drives. The machine had FC2 
running on it -  2.6.10-1.771_FC2smp kernel.

The problem I'm having is that the machine will not boot properly. After 
grub loads, everything else is skipped, and I get a prompt that says 
"(none) login: ". When I try to login at this prompt, I'm not asked for 
my password, and the login prompt appears again.

After a while, I noticed this error:
---
/bin/login: error while loading shared libraries: libdl.so.2: cannot 
open object file: input/output error
INIT: Id "1" respawning too fast: disable for 5 minutes
---

I tried to 'upgrade' my installation using the FC2 CD to see if that 
fixes the problem, but when the installer searches for the FC2 
installations, it gets killed with the error: "swap not initialized".

I then booted the FC2 CD in linux rescue mode. I can see that 
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 is pointing to /lib/ld-2.3.3.so. But /lib/libdl.so.2 
is not being read, in the sense that I can list it with the ls command, 
but when I try to do `ls -l` on it, I get an 'input/output error'. I 
tried this to forcibly create a link:

`ln -s /lib/libdl-2.3.3.so /lib/libdl.so.2'

but I get an error : cannot create link: read only filesystem

I even tried to `rm -rf /lib/libdl.so.2' and the command returned 
without any errors. But I still cannot `ln -s' in the /lib directory.

Any suggestion?

Thanks,
Saurabh.
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Saurabh Barve
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