Friday the 13th Updates System is broken!

[creolecat]

Hello,
not
I ran the latest batch of updates and got an error message at the end of the process.

Now my system is completely down, all I get is login@darkstar prompt and cannot get past that.
Can someone help please! Thanks.

[Maras]

What was the error message?

[creolecat]

I ran the updates using Gslapt package manager and saw it only once, just something like "An error occurred"

[Maras]

Run : slapt-get --clean
and see if you got results

[creolecat]

Maras,

The x-server is not starting and I have no terminal to enter this command in my system. I am using live usb to type this response.
After the grub screen, the Slackel 14.2 boot selection is made and I get the following messages:

[ 3.430195] EXT4-fs (sda1). couldn't mount as ext3 due to feature incompatibilities
INIT: version 2.88 booting
/bin/sh: error while loading shared libtinfo.50.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
INIT: ID "x1" respawning too fast. disabled for 5 minutes
login darkstar:

[Maras]

So you cannot login via terminal? Can you boot into single user mode?

[djemos]

press ctrl-alt F1 and log in in the console
then
sudo slapt-get -u
sudo slapt-get -i ncurses
or download manually ncurses from here ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/linux/slackware/slackware64-current/slackware64/l/ncurses-6.0-x86_64-2.txz
look what file exist in /usr/lib64/libcurses.so /usr/lib64/libtinfo.50.6
and then install ncurses-6.0
sudo installpkg ncurses-6.0-x86_64-2.txz

If this does not work then boot with usb and mount your system under /mnt/floppy ( if floppy does not exit create it first sudo mkdir /mnt/floppy
sudo mount -t ext4 /dev/sda1 /mnt/floppy

sudo installpkg --root /mnt/floppy ncurses-6.0-x86_64-2.txz
Reboot to your system
and run sudo slapt-get -u
sudo slapt-get --upgrade

[djemos]

For users upgrading.
install aaa_elflibs package first. I do not like slackware's aaa_elfibs style. It is not part of slackel. But since it is a rolling release it is better to include it to not break packages and make difficulties for users.
Read more here http://www.slackware.com/~mozes/docs/aaa_elflibs.txt

[linocaetani]

I had the same problem, now I have installed Slackel again and update works fine after install aaa_elflibs first via terminal. Happy to run my favourite distro again thanks

[atipp]

Just this morning I had the same problem upgrading with gslapt. It aborted when it came to util-linux. After that I could not give any commands since it said libtinfo.so.6 cannot be found. Dirty reboot.
Booting failed, could not find libtinfo. Sweated quite a bit. Then, eureka, made a symlink libncurses.5.9 libtinfo.so.5 from my salix box and could boot into Slackel again this afternoon.
Upgraded util-linux first then run gslapt and upgrade of 70 plus odd packages run smooth.