System not booting after yum updates

[Craig Preston]

2009/3/7 David Timms <dtimms at iinet.net.au>

> Craig Preston wrote:
>
>> After using my F10 system the other day, it automatically downloaded a
>> bunch
>> a new updates and installed them. When I came back the next day to use the
>> system it will not boot now. After the grub screen it goes to start
>> loading
>> and then displays the following error -
>>
>> /bin/lvm error while loading shared libraries libreadline.so.5 cannot open
>>
> is that actually /sbin/lvm ?
> - I do not have a /bin/lvm either.


The error actually says /bin/lvm. Using the single user boot that works, I
could see that the directory didn't exist on my drive either.


>
>  shared object file: no such file or directory
>> unable to access resume device (/dev/volgroup00/logvol01)
>> mount : could not find filesystem 'dev/root'
>>
>> In my grub menu i still have the previous kernel listed and I can boot
>> into
>> single user mode with it, but not the regular boot.
>>
>> It seems strange to have just stopped working without me changing any
>> system
>> settings. Only a week or so earlier I installed the livna Nvidia drivers,
>> I
>> don't know if they have corrupted anything??
>>
> When you say livna, do you mean RPM Fusion ?


Yeah sorry, RPM fusion is what i used for the nvidia.


>
>
>  Any help would be great
>>
> See where your system stands at the moment:
> $ rpm -qa \*kernel\* \*nv\* lvm2 readline|sort
>
> list the most recent updates:
> # tail --lines=200 /var/log/yum.log
>
> verify the some package installs:
> $ rpm -V kernel readline lvm2
>
> fdisk -l
>
> mount
>
> cat /boot/grub/grub.conf
>
> blkid
>
> You might like to paste any big results to a pastebin, and post the link
> here instead ( ).--


I will try this and see what the output states.
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