Re: Fedora 5 cannot boot because of corrupted /lib/libcrypto.so.6
- From: General Schvantzkopf <schvantzkopf@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 19:09:48 -0600
On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 18:31:18 -0600, Sam wrote:
Dennis writes:
I had accidentally corrupted my /lib/libcrypto.so.6 file on my Fedora
Core 5 laptop and now I cannot boot. It just spins forever on a black
screen with a cursor in the middle of the screen. How can I restore the
corrupted libcrypto.so.6 file so that I can bring my laptop back to
life again?
I really need the data that is on the disk.
It's unlikely that you cannot boot because of a bad libcrypto. That
library isn't really needed until you load something that requires SSL,
and that doesn't happen until very late in the boot process, when you
attempt to start something like Apache, or your mail server, or perhaps
even ssh. By that time you're fairly well into your boot process and you
should've had a lot of things happen already.
Your message suggests that your boot process doesn't even start. That
ain't libcrypto, that's for sure.
Anyway, whatever your problem is, what you need to do is get the Fedora
5 install CD or DVD. Actually even the current Fedora 8 install DVD will
work. Boot it and choose the rescue mode. The installer should be able
to find your boot partition, mount them, and throw you into a shell.
Then, it's up to you to figure out what REALLY's broken, and how to fix
it.
Even better use the Fedora8 Live CD, it boots into Fedora 8 and it can
automount all of your partitions. You can then try and fix what ever is
wrong or you can use the LiveCD to copy off all of your data to another
system.
.
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