How to recover after deleting the symbolic link libc.so.6?

Question

In our server the symbolic link to libc.so.6 has been deleted. Now none of the binaries in the system work. To fix this, I tried:

/bin/ln -s /li         


        

Answer 1

Try:

LD_PRELOAD=/lib/libc-2.17.so ln -s /lib/libc-2.17.so /lib/libc.so.6

Note: The actual version depends on your library.

Answer 2

Boot using a live cd like Knoppix or whatever and fix the missing link after mounting the disk with the "broken" system out of the running live system.