[unsolved?] Error -- Cannot Boot

atomicpookavirus · 2009-06-30 01:34:03

I can no longer boot. The last operations I performed were:
1)compiled libev
2)installed libev
3)started awesome (for the first time succesfully thanks to comiling libev)
4)within awesome I opened an xterm and installed midori
-- pacman gave me this cryptic error while installing:
/bin/bash: error while loading shared libraries: libread.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
5)started midori -- it worked fine
6)tried to open another xterm -- that failed
7)quit awesome, again getting the error:
/bin/bash: error while loading shared libraries: libread.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
and 8) rebooted --

Here are the last lines of text during the boot process.
I'm downloading a live cd now. Any help troubleshooting is so very much be appreciated.

:: Initramfs Completed - control passing to kinit
IP-Config: no devices to configure
Waiting 0 s before mounting root device...
k journald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with writeback data mode.
kinit: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly.
INIT: version 2.86 booting
/bin/bash: error while loading shared libraries: libread.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
INIT: Entering runlevel : 3
/bin/bash: error while loading shared libraries: libread.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
--it hangs here for a few minutes
Init: Id "c1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
Init: Id "c2" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
Init: Id "c3" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
Init: Id "c4" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
Init: Id "c5" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
Init: Id "c6" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: no more processes left in this runlevel
--I hit ctrl+alt+del
shutdown: warning: cannot open /var/run/shutdown.pid
shutdown: /dev/initctl: No such file or directory
init: /dev/initctl: No such file or directory
--it hangs here for a few mintes
Init: Id "c1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
Init: Id "c2" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
Init: Id "c3" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
Init: Id "c4" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
Init: Id "c5" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
Init: Id "c6" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes

Last edited by atomicpookavirus (2009-07-06 09:43:14)

SpeedVin · 2009-06-30 03:26:46

Hello try to install readline package.

atomicpookavirus · 2009-06-30 09:40:11

Thanks for the suggestion but I'm not sure how to install a package onto a sytem that won't boot.

sjovan · 2009-06-30 10:59:43

Boot the livecd.
- mount /dev/dsa1 (If that is you filesystem) /mnt/something
- chroot /mnt/something

now the start point is your system disk, not cd. If I'm not mistaking pacman should work now. Please correct me any one if I'm wrong. Haven't had any trouble in a while.

scio · 2009-06-30 11:18:38

Follow these steps, but don't install grub just mount and chroot:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Rei … stallation

atomicpookavirus · 2009-07-01 00:07:01

I followed those steps and reinstalled readline but nothing changed. I've reinstalled Arch and everything seems to be working this time around.

Diaz · 2009-07-05 20:48:11

i just updated fiferox and i haven't done an update in a while, so the same problem reported here happened to me.
i'm not really into reinstalling arch right now.
in this moment im using a live system (fedora 10) and just tried to do the chroot to arch.
But it fails to do so with the same error that it can't boot from grub:

 [root@localhost disk-2]# chroot ./ /bin/bash
/bin/bash: error while loading shared libraries: libreadline.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
[root@localhost disk-2]#

So, any help is apreciated thanks.

JGBayer · 2009-07-05 22:14:01

I've been having the same problem since yesterday
Please, help!

kst- · 2009-07-06 06:28:52

I ran into the same problem after installing Arch via chakra and updating/installing merely firefox (I think ) via shaman. After a reboot I ended up with the same problem.

Booted up my good old Ubuntu, mounted the Arch system into my Ubuntu system as described above for liveCDs, but couldn't chroot to it as /bin/bash wouldn't work. It seems pacman works though, so I did a

sudo chroot /path/to/my/arch/within/ubuntu /usr/bin/pacman -Syu

to update the system. And that system update is still running.. (2mbit is a pain). Let's see if it works.

atomicpookavirus · 2009-07-06 09:40:17

In a similar thread (lireadline.so.5 causing problems), a solution was found by doing a full system update with pacman -Syu or just a bash update with pacman -Sy bash.

Gen2ly · 2009-07-23 10:59:32

Hmm this just happened to me after I uninstalled firefox 3.5.1 and installed icecat. Updating bash did the trick. Last did a system update about a month ago.

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#1 2009-06-30 01:34:03

[unsolved?] Error -- Cannot Boot

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Re: [unsolved?] Error -- Cannot Boot

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