system error mesage

[John Medina]

I did a swverify * > myfile and then started correcting permissions at /usr, then recieved folowing meassage crt0: ERROR : mmap failed for dld (text) errno: 000000003. I have rebooted system and now this meassge is displayed and cannot get to boot prompt.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
John

[John Warminski]

The message is because of a missing dependency or file .
In my case it was because I had accidentally screwed up links between /var and /usr .
This is going to be site specific since you may not have he same links that I have.

Question at this point is although you have no boot prompt ... is the system in fact up ???

If it is and you can access from some place try a restore from tape .... otherwise you are going to have the joy of booting from the maintenance menu ... something that generally throws me for a loop.

[John Medina]

No, the system is not up. How do I get to maintenance prompt. I am considering reloading OS from CD's? Any ideas?

Thanks,
John

[John Warminski]

When you system begins to boot ... you should get a message
to the effect of srting autoboot process ....
You have 10 seconds to reply .... pressing any key should get you to the configuration menu ...

Then there is an option to search for boot paths .... things get vague here because of diferent options .... you can boot form CD / tape / or an alternate kernal .

The knowledge tree has a couple of different docs .... you might try this one first ...
It puts you in single user mode .... hopefully from there you cna restore your file structure ...

There are a couple of other docs ... but looks like I cab only attach one