[FIX FOUND] HELP! I screwed up Arch something awful. (Prelink + Glibc)

I don't even know what I did.
It's been a few days since I've rebooted. For some reason, every single program I tried to run segfaulted. This includes commands like 'su' and 'ls'.
So, I decided it was time for a hard reboot. Upon rebooting, Grub finds the /boot partition and boots the 2.6.37-ck kernel I have installed. However, it obviously doesn't find / because there is no information about loading modules, or clearing /tmp or daemons, etc. It just starts booting the kernel, then drops me to a login that doesn't know the machine name.
I can't log in because there are no users, including root.
I installed Arch on an LVM (except for /boot) which must be the source of the problem. But I don't know how to recover or even what is actually wrong!
Last edited by pogeymanz (2011-01-28 17:25:49)

pogeymanz wrote:we may be witnessing the birth of a nasty bug report here.
The bug report is never nasty (unless harshly worded, or just a tirade). Rather, they are the fuel that helps drive development and produces clean code. The bug itself is what's nasty. The bug is the birthing pain of potentially better things in the future; they suck, but can lead to beautiful things . Anyway, good job getting that fixed. I had something like 20 hours to get a paper finished and turned in, so I couldn't spend time waiting for help on the forums, and decided to spend the 45 minutes reinstalling instead. It's good to know that a) I didn't necessarily screw this up and b) there's a fairly straightforward fix for it.

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Last edited by Dj_kourampies (2011-03-30 05:10:30)

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CBJ wrote:Anyway I don't see what your problem is, its one small email to send.
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Dusty wrote:I agree with CBJ that they should be notified of outdated logos, just as shops that shell cds should be notified of outdated isos.
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To explain my previous posts: I don't like the attitude of some of these shops. I once made a Arch Sticker for a german linux shop and bought some of these myself. I did most of the work except for creating the Arch Logo: Designing the sticker & spreading the word about it in the arch forum and IRC... I didn't even get some kind of discount for doing all that. It's not that I would've done this to earn money with Arch, I did it for fun. I wouldn't do it again because I wasn't satisfied with the quality of the stickers. But I don't blame the shop for it, I think my expectations were too high.
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I'm sorry if I was a little harsh before.
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