libdl.so.2 error

[Jeff Vian]

On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 15:10 -0600, Saurabh Barve wrote:
> 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.
> 
You used an ~$40 ide controller card instead of spending ~$100 for a new
mobo?  And you knew that at least the ide controller on the mobo is
fried?

That seems a bit like trying to scrape the burn off the outside of the
toast and serving it anyway.

> 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.
> 
The controller fried.  Maybe the disk is corrupted.