Dear all

I managed to do "removepkg aaa_elflibs" on a server and locked myself
out :-(

Netzwerk-terms brought "libterm..so... not found". I tried logging into
the console - with the same result. I cannot login any more.

I booted from the CD (Slackware 11.0, that is the version running)
mounted / and did "tar xzvf aaa_elflibgs...tgz -C /mnt".

That goes, but still I can't login.

Any ideas?

VR

In article <473d72e0$0$5747$5402220f@news.sunrise.ch>,
Visvanath Ratnaweera <spam@ratnaweera.net> wrote:

> I managed to do "removepkg aaa_elflibs" on a server and locked myself
> out :-(

Oops.


> I booted from the CD (Slackware 11.0, that is the version running)
> mounted / and did "tar xzvf aaa_elflibgs...tgz -C /mnt".
>
> That goes, but still I can't login.

You need to use installpkg so the install script is executed, like this:

# installpkg -root /mnt aaa_elflibs-*.tgz


Good luck.

- M.

Hi Martin

Am 2007-11-16 15:59, Martijn Dekker schrieb:
> In article <473d72e0$0$5747$5402220f@news.sunrise.ch>,
> Visvanath Ratnaweera <spam@ratnaweera.net> wrote:
>
>> I managed to do "removepkg aaa_elflibs" on a server and locked myself
>> out :-(
>
>> I booted from the CD (Slackware 11.0, that is the version running)
>> mounted / and did "tar xzvf aaa_elflibgs...tgz -C /mnt".
>>
>
> You need to use installpkg so the install script is executed, like this:
>
> # installpkg -root /mnt aaa_elflibs-*.tgz

Thanks for the help! I'll try that once I have access to the server
on Monday.

regards
VR

In article <473e8c5f$1_6@news.bluewin.ch>,
Visvanath Ratnaweera <spam@ratnaweera.net> wrote:

> Am 2007-11-16 15:59, Martijn Dekker schrieb:
> > You need to use installpkg so the install script is executed, like this:
> >
> > # installpkg -root /mnt aaa_elflibs-*.tgz
>
> Thanks for the help! I'll try that once I have access to the server
> on Monday.

So, did it work?

- M., curious

Hi Martijn

Am 2007-11-20 13:59, Martijn Dekker schrieb:
> In article <473e8c5f$1_6@news.bluewin.ch>,
> Visvanath Ratnaweera <spam@ratnaweera.net> wrote:
>
>> Am 2007-11-16 15:59, Martijn Dekker schrieb:
>>> You need to use installpkg so the install script is executed, like this:
>>>
>>> # installpkg -root /mnt aaa_elflibs-*.tgz
>> Thanks for the help! I'll try that once I have access to the server
>> on Monday.
>
> So, did it work?

Worked like a charm. Thanks a lot!

(I tried it only today midday, there were some time constraints.)

regards
Visvanath

In article <4742f2a9$0$3811$5402220f@news.sunrise.ch>,
Visvanath Ratnaweera <spam@ratnaweera.net> wrote:

> Hi Martijn
>
> Am 2007-11-20 13:59, Martijn Dekker schrieb:
> > In article <473e8c5f$1_6@news.bluewin.ch>,
> > Visvanath Ratnaweera <spam@ratnaweera.net> wrote:
> >
> >> Am 2007-11-16 15:59, Martijn Dekker schrieb:
> >>> You need to use installpkg so the install script is executed, like this:
> >>>
> >>> # installpkg -root /mnt aaa_elflibs-*.tgz
> >> Thanks for the help! I'll try that once I have access to the server
> >> on Monday.
> >
> > So, did it work?
>
> Worked like a charm. Thanks a lot!

Good.

Note that this will have overwritten some security updates. For
instance, libpng is duplicated in aaa_elflibs, so for optimal security
you should now reinstall the recently issued libpng security update. I'm
not sure but there are probably a few others as well.

So you might want to go through the list of library files in
/var/log/packages/aaa_elflibs* and if there are security updates for any
of those libs, reinstall the corresponding packages.

- Martijn