Comment 20 for bug 21481

I am experiencing this issue - three years after the initial bug report - on my present system. The hardware is 3 Ghz Core 2 Duos with 8GB of ram and an nVidia 8800GT with 64-bit Ubuntu Hardy Heron and whichever kernel is current in apt today (-19 IIRC)

The specific error message:

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/sbin/usplash_write: "error while loading shared libraries: libc.6.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"
modprobe: "error while loading shared libraries: libc.6.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"
ALERT! /dev/disk/by-uuid/<insert hashed root id>/ does not exist. Dropping to a shell
(initramfs)>
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I booted the kernel into Recovery Mode and the system came back up. I took this chance to downgrade the kernel to -18 and the system came back up. I then rebooted and got the exact same problem.

I see that this bug has been around since 2005 and is currently a "Low Priority." I am skeptical that reinstalling my system will fix the problem so hope someone is willing to work with me over IRC or telephone to get to the root of the problem ASAP. I need a stable system and this bug didn't come up until it had been running for 2-3 weeks. I made no recent configuration changes, so I am positive that reinstalling will only give the facade of fixing it and that I may well experience the problem again in less than a month.