On Tue, 7 Jul 2009 13:54:52 +1000 Alan E. Davis wrote: > thank you. And your comment was duly noted about trying random > things. > > When I boot the system, the following message follows (after one other > line) after INIT: version 2.86 booting > > /sbin/rc: error while loading shared libraries: libncurses.so.5: > cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory. > > Alan
Might you just be missing a symlink? I have the following on my system: lrwxrwxrwx ... /lib/libncurses.so -> libncurses.so.5 lrwxrwxrwx ... /lib/libncurses.so.5 -> libncurses.so.5.6 -rwxr-xr-x ... /lib/libncurses.so.5.6 HTH, David
