[plug] GalleryRemote on Ubuntu 7.10

[Tomasz Grzegurzko]

On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 9:33 AM, Kai <vk6ksj at westnet.com.au> wrote:
> 'morning guys and girls,
>
>  Are we having a good Saturday morning ? sunny and sandy ?
>
>  I'm trying to install GalleryRemote from here
>  (http://gallery.menalto.com/wiki/Gallery_Remote) on Ubuntu 7.10, the
>  initial part of the install goes fine but then this pops up...
>
>  basename: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open
>  shared object file: No such file or directory
>  hostname: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open
>  shared object file: No such file or directory
>
>  Launching installer...
>
>  grep: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open
>  shared object file: No such file or directory
>  /tmp/install.dir.26017/Linux/resource/jre/bin/java: error while loading
>  shared libraries: libpthread.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No
>  such file or directory
>
>  I've googled various parts of that error message but I haven't found
>  anything usefull.
>
>  I tried installing JVM from Sun by itself, all good, then running the
>  NoJVM file from Gallery's page, same error, then tried the JVM inclusive
>  file from Gallery's page but that didn't work either, same error.
>
>  Any suggestions about what logs to look at, or other info, would be good.
>
>  Cheers
>  Kai
>
>
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That's a serious problem. Linux hinges off C and the library that's
broken are the C libraries (glibc!).
Sounds to me like you've either got filesystem errors or some majorly
bad corruption in that file.. If you manage to reinstall glibc, I'd be
surprised with the things that are failing so far!

Tomasz