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I tried to downgrade from debian 10 to debian 9, and after many apt upgrade or aptitute safe-upgrade and full-upgrade, when I rebooted the system it does not load and I get this error:



error while loading shared libraries: libext2fs.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
The root filesystem on /dev/sda2 requires a manual fsck


I tried to get the file from another installation and put in the directory (with a live CD):



lib/x86_64-linux-gnu


But still the file seems to not be in the directory (I see it when I navigate directory with live CD).

What I get is this:



(initramfs)


With just few commands.










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  • there's no question here. start by running: fsck dev/sda2

    – Timmy Browne
    Jan 30 at 19:55











  • i can't, i installed debian again.

    – Giacomo Masseroni Chiaro
    Jan 30 at 23:11


















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I tried to downgrade from debian 10 to debian 9, and after many apt upgrade or aptitute safe-upgrade and full-upgrade, when I rebooted the system it does not load and I get this error:



error while loading shared libraries: libext2fs.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
The root filesystem on /dev/sda2 requires a manual fsck


I tried to get the file from another installation and put in the directory (with a live CD):



lib/x86_64-linux-gnu


But still the file seems to not be in the directory (I see it when I navigate directory with live CD).

What I get is this:



(initramfs)


With just few commands.










share|improve this question























  • there's no question here. start by running: fsck dev/sda2

    – Timmy Browne
    Jan 30 at 19:55











  • i can't, i installed debian again.

    – Giacomo Masseroni Chiaro
    Jan 30 at 23:11














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I tried to downgrade from debian 10 to debian 9, and after many apt upgrade or aptitute safe-upgrade and full-upgrade, when I rebooted the system it does not load and I get this error:



error while loading shared libraries: libext2fs.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
The root filesystem on /dev/sda2 requires a manual fsck


I tried to get the file from another installation and put in the directory (with a live CD):



lib/x86_64-linux-gnu


But still the file seems to not be in the directory (I see it when I navigate directory with live CD).

What I get is this:



(initramfs)


With just few commands.










share|improve this question














I tried to downgrade from debian 10 to debian 9, and after many apt upgrade or aptitute safe-upgrade and full-upgrade, when I rebooted the system it does not load and I get this error:



error while loading shared libraries: libext2fs.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
The root filesystem on /dev/sda2 requires a manual fsck


I tried to get the file from another installation and put in the directory (with a live CD):



lib/x86_64-linux-gnu


But still the file seems to not be in the directory (I see it when I navigate directory with live CD).

What I get is this:



(initramfs)


With just few commands.







debian debian-stretch






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  • there's no question here. start by running: fsck dev/sda2

    – Timmy Browne
    Jan 30 at 19:55











  • i can't, i installed debian again.

    – Giacomo Masseroni Chiaro
    Jan 30 at 23:11



















  • there's no question here. start by running: fsck dev/sda2

    – Timmy Browne
    Jan 30 at 19:55











  • i can't, i installed debian again.

    – Giacomo Masseroni Chiaro
    Jan 30 at 23:11

















there's no question here. start by running: fsck dev/sda2

– Timmy Browne
Jan 30 at 19:55





there's no question here. start by running: fsck dev/sda2

– Timmy Browne
Jan 30 at 19:55













i can't, i installed debian again.

– Giacomo Masseroni Chiaro
Jan 30 at 23:11





i can't, i installed debian again.

– Giacomo Masseroni Chiaro
Jan 30 at 23:11










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Just hit this myself after recovering from improperly pinned backports.



Reinstall e2fslibs and e2fsprogs and then update the initrd.



apt-get --reinstall install e2fsprogs e2fslibs
update-initramfs -u


(from memory) You can pass -v while rebuilding the ramdisk and grep for ext to make sure the shared library is being included.



I used rescue mode from an install USB drive and let it make a chrooted mount & root shell for me. I invoked bash to make the job easier.



Buster has stub packages for those two but Stretch needs them.






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    Just hit this myself after recovering from improperly pinned backports.



    Reinstall e2fslibs and e2fsprogs and then update the initrd.



    apt-get --reinstall install e2fsprogs e2fslibs
    update-initramfs -u


    (from memory) You can pass -v while rebuilding the ramdisk and grep for ext to make sure the shared library is being included.



    I used rescue mode from an install USB drive and let it make a chrooted mount & root shell for me. I invoked bash to make the job easier.



    Buster has stub packages for those two but Stretch needs them.






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      Just hit this myself after recovering from improperly pinned backports.



      Reinstall e2fslibs and e2fsprogs and then update the initrd.



      apt-get --reinstall install e2fsprogs e2fslibs
      update-initramfs -u


      (from memory) You can pass -v while rebuilding the ramdisk and grep for ext to make sure the shared library is being included.



      I used rescue mode from an install USB drive and let it make a chrooted mount & root shell for me. I invoked bash to make the job easier.



      Buster has stub packages for those two but Stretch needs them.






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        Just hit this myself after recovering from improperly pinned backports.



        Reinstall e2fslibs and e2fsprogs and then update the initrd.



        apt-get --reinstall install e2fsprogs e2fslibs
        update-initramfs -u


        (from memory) You can pass -v while rebuilding the ramdisk and grep for ext to make sure the shared library is being included.



        I used rescue mode from an install USB drive and let it make a chrooted mount & root shell for me. I invoked bash to make the job easier.



        Buster has stub packages for those two but Stretch needs them.






        share|improve this answer













        Just hit this myself after recovering from improperly pinned backports.



        Reinstall e2fslibs and e2fsprogs and then update the initrd.



        apt-get --reinstall install e2fsprogs e2fslibs
        update-initramfs -u


        (from memory) You can pass -v while rebuilding the ramdisk and grep for ext to make sure the shared library is being included.



        I used rescue mode from an install USB drive and let it make a chrooted mount & root shell for me. I invoked bash to make the job easier.



        Buster has stub packages for those two but Stretch needs them.







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