Cannot open shared object file errors preventing boot up

[Graeme Nichols]

Rick Stevens wrote:
> Graeme Nichols wrote:
> 
>> Hello Folks, I don't know if I have been hacked or have simply managed 
>> to corrupt something but I cannot start any apps. and cannot really 
>> boot the system.
>>
>> The errors I am receiving all say 'error while loading shared library 
>> <some library: cannot open shared object file: no such file or directory"
>>
>> While trying to boot the first error encountered says: "Starting xfs: 
>> xfs: error while loading shared library libXfont.so.1: cannot open 
>> shared object file: no such file or directory."
>>
>> The when the graphical login screen is trying to load I get the error 
>> "Id X respawning too fast. Disaabled for 5 minutes"
>>
>> If I manage to boot into run level 3 then try to run 'startx' I get 
>> about 6 lines of errors similar to the following: " Xauth: error while 
>> loading shared libraries: libXmuu.so.1; cannot open shared etc. etc. 
>> No such file or directory"
>>
>> I was running mrtg at the time and it failed with the same type of error.
>>
>> The only other thing I was doing at the time was installing epiphany 
>> using the package manager, which finished normally but epiphany would 
>> not run. Said it was starting but it bombed out. Trying to start it 
>> from a terminal resulted in a similar error to all the above.
>>
>> Help Please... I'm sending this from Win 98, not good.
> 
> 
> Some of your X environment got stomped on.  Boot up in run level 3 or
> single user mode, dig up your CDs and run
> 
>     rpm -Uvh --force XFree86-devel*.rpm
> 
> Hopefully that should fix it unless other bits got munched, too.

Hi Rick, thanks. re-installed all the xorg-X11* rpms on the 4 FC2 CDs. 
This had an impact in that 'startx' tries to do things now but 
eventually bombs out on the 'unix/7100' (or something) font path and 
then 'cannot load 'fixed' fonts' I've googled around but cannot find any 
answers yet.

Have you any further ideas on what may be happening now and how I can 
work out just where this font path refers to?

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Kind regards,
Graeme Nichols.