You should be able to run /bin/sh as a shell to repair your machine. I
would load the old libreadline to get back to a working system.
Have fun.
On Mon, 8 Oct 2001, Miller, Matt wrote:
> I've got a Debian 2.2 system down...
> After attempting to install the libreadline4 and libreadline4-dev packages
> (which partially failed), I now repeatedly receive the following error
> message:
> /bin/bash: error while loading shared libraries: /bin/bash: undefined
> symbol: history_max_entries
> This problem disables my ability to enter any other init level other than
> single-user mode. For example: init 3 results in:
> /bin/bash: error while loading shared libraries: /bin/bash: undefined
> symbol: history_max_entries
> At boot, using any shell, I receive the same error just before the console
> login appears. I've tried forcibly removing the packages, but the error
> persists.
> As it is I had to run an init=/bin/tcsh at lilo in order to even get into
> single-user mode. I am unable to login using bash or sh. Ldconfig -v comes
> back OK.
> I could only find this one reference:
> http://groups.google.com/groups?q=%22undefined+symbol%22+%22history_max_entr
> ies%22&hl=en&rnum=2&selm=Pine.LNX.4.21.0104101431150.370-100000%40rock.dezev
> ensprong.local
>
> Unfortunately, I don't have any backups of this particular system. Has
> anyone seen this before?
> Matt
>
>
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