sounds like memory corruption..

cache problems or plain old bad ram..

it couldn't find the symbol because it was corrupted.
you read it right..


not good news I'm afraid..
don't trust your life on that machine :(

> 
> 
> 	I had something interesting happen to me earlier today.
> I attempted to login to my machine, but instead of prompting for
> a password, the kernel panicked.  The error message it gave me
> was :
> 
> ld.so: Undefined symbol "_rpc_craateerr" in login:/usr/lib/libc.so.12.0
> 
> It then gave a message beginning with "vm_fault", and the rest I
> didn't transcribe.  I wrote down the above message by hand, although
> I checked to make sure that I had written the string down correctly.
> 
> 	I was curious, so I did a "strings libc.so.12.0 | grep rpc",
> which returned, among other things, "_rpc_createerr".  Does anyone
> have any idea why login would see the string "_rpc_craateerr" when
> I saw "_rpc_createerr"?
> 
> 	Any help in figuring this out is appreciated.
> 
> Chad Mynhier <mynhier@cs.utk.edu>
> Student System Administrator, CS Department        
> University of Tennessee, Knoxville                   
> WWW: http://www.cs.utk.edu/~mynhier/
>