libc.so.6 - cannot open shared object file

[csripriya1]

I was trying to work out installing python 2.2 in the read hat linux version of 7.0. I ran into lot of problems.
AT some point of time it complained about missing GLIBC_2.3 in /lib/libc.so.6. I thought that I would try copying this file from other machine. In this process I did rename this libc.so.6 to libc.so.6_old

Afterwards I could not even log into this machine , It started giving this error.

-tcsh: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Can anyone please help me. Urgent........


Thanks

 

[ericbrunson]

Just about everything in the world dynamically links to libc. You're going to have to find an emergency boot disk, boot off it, mount your / partition then rename the file back to its original name.