YDL 5.0.2 problem on iBook G4

[Stephen Harker]

Hi,

I had installed YDL 5.0.2 successfully on my iBook (G4, late 2005) and
also on my 7600/200 by using 'yum update' on both cases (and my own
kernel for the 7600). A friend who has a 2004 iBook G4 later tried to
update his machine using the more conventional DVD install. However,
he has various problems that are difficult to check (he is in
Melbourne and I am in Canberra, so a visit is unlikely for some time).
I am hoping someone may have a suggestion.

Stewart did a custom install and it installed without apparent
problems (no complaints). However, it won't boot. He has tried the
DVD rescue mode boot and checked some things, but so far it is not
clear what the cause of the problem is. The following is a
transcription of some of the boot message:

PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 0 of device 0001:10:18.0
PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 0 of device 0001:10:19.0
Red Hat nash version 5.0.32 starting
mount: error while loading shared libaries: libdevmapper.so.1.02: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Welcome to Yellow Dog Linux
Press 'I' to enter interactive startup
Setting clock (local time): Tue Jan 23:52:41 MST 2000 [OK]
Starting udev:
[OK]
Loading default keymap (us): [OK]
Setting hostname localhost.localdomain [OK]
Setting up local volume management: No volume groups found
[OK]
Checking filesystems
fsck: error while loading shared libraries: libdevmapper.so.1.02 cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
[FAILED]
*** An error occurred during the file system check
*** Dropping you to a shell: the system will reboot
*** when you leave the shell

Apparently libdevmapper exists on /usr/lib on Stewart's system just as
it does on mine. At the moment it is far from clear where the problem
lies and why my system works without problems and his does not. I
would be grateful for any suggestions.

[Mikael Pettersson]

Post by Stephen Harker
PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 0 of device 0001:10:18.0
PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 0 of device 0001:10:19.0
Red Hat nash version 5.0.32 starting
mount: error while loading shared libaries: libdevmapper.so.1.02: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Welcome to Yellow Dog Linux
Press 'I' to enter interactive startup
Setting clock (local time): Tue Jan 23:52:41 MST 2000 [OK]
[OK]
Loading default keymap (us): [OK]
Setting hostname localhost.localdomain [OK]
Setting up local volume management: No volume groups found
[OK]
Checking filesystems
fsck: error while loading shared libraries: libdevmapper.so.1.02 cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
[FAILED]
*** An error occurred during the file system check
*** Dropping you to a shell: the system will reboot
*** when you leave the shell
Apparently libdevmapper exists on /usr/lib on Stewart's system just as
it does on mine. At the moment it is far from clear where the problem
lies and why my system works without problems and his does not. I
would be grateful for any suggestions.

For dynamic linking, libdevmapper.so needs to exist in /lib/ not /usr/lib/.

When in the recovery shell, transfer the device-mapper rpm to the broken
machine, rpm -Uvh it (you may need --force if rpm thinks it's already installed),
and reboot. Unless the kernel's initrd also needed it, that ought to fix things.

You can get the rpm from the install cds/dvd or from a yellowdog mirror site.

[Stephen Harker]

Post by Mikael Pettersson

Post by Stephen Harker
PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 0 of device 0001:10:18.0
PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 0 of device 0001:10:19.0
Red Hat nash version 5.0.32 starting
mount: error while loading shared libaries: libdevmapper.so.1.02: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

For dynamic linking, libdevmapper.so needs to exist in /lib/ not /usr/lib/.
When in the recovery shell, transfer the device-mapper rpm to the broken
machine, rpm -Uvh it (you may need --force if rpm thinks it's already installed),
and reboot. Unless the kernel's initrd also needed it, that ought to fix things.
You can get the rpm from the install cds/dvd or from a yellowdog mirror site.

Thanks for this. I communicated with Stewart and it helped solve his
problem. Apparently, like many, he follows the old practise of having
/usr on a separate partition from /, so things in /usr/lib are not
mounted at the same time as / and hence are not found.