missing libncurses.so.5 and other lib*

[Steve Kargl]

On Sun, May 02, 2004 at 09:59:49PM -0400, Joshua Boyd wrote:
> Steve Kargl wrote:
> 
> >On Mon, May 03, 2004 at 03:02:01AM +0200, haig at sylac.de wrote:
> >
> >>as they were working nicely.
> >>any ideas how I can get a shell ?
> >>or another solution ?
> >>
> >
> >If you have a /rescue directory (which you should), then
> >boot into single user mode and specify /rescue/sh as your
> >shell.  Next, mount your filesystems with /rescue/mount
> >and restore the missing libraries from your backup tapes.
> >
> Yes, I'm sure that he has backup tapes for his laptop.  *rolls eyes*  I 
> ha da problem similar to this where libraries were "missing" but instead 
> the librariers were there but the .so.randomnumber wasn't there.

Go ahead roll your eyes.  I back up the important files from
my laptops via rsync to my main system.  I could use amanda or
rdump or other methods such as burning a CD or DVD.  If you're
going to remove shared libraries, one should have some sort of
back up plan.

-- 
Steve