Recovering from an ill-advised crle 1

[JapanMontrealExpat]

Hi everyone,

while trying to cross-compile some old software on a Solaris 8 machine, I tried to change default paths with crle, and my machine won't boot anymore, except with the system cdrom.

I get messages such as cannot create /var/adm/utmpx and libsocket.so.1: open failed.

Can anyone suggest a simple fix?

Best regards,

JME

 

[Annihilannic]

From the man page:

[tt] The default configuration file is /var/ld/ld.config for 32-
bit objects and /var/ld/64/ld.config for 64-bit objects.
Note: It is recommended that any new configuration file is
first created in a temporary location.[/tt]

I guess you didn't do that? Try perhaps booting from CD-ROM, mounting your root filesystem somewhere and moving or removing that file?

Annihilannic.

 

[JapanMontrealExpat]

Thanks Annihilannic,

that did the trick. I'm glad I asked.

JME