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  • From: Ron Clarke <ariadne AT acepia.net.au>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] BL2 - library downgrade problems (glibc-2.2.5>2.1.3) (fwd)
  • Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 12:46:59 +1000

Hi Sindi,

On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 20:55:47 -0500 (EST)
Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 1 Apr 2004, Ron Clarke wrote:
>
> > Hi Sindi,
> >
> > > On Wed, 31 Mar 2004, Sindi Keesan wrote:
> > >
> > > > What else do I need to do in order to finish downgrading so
> > > > things all work again without looking for the later library?
> >
> > When I stuffed up MY BL2 installation with upgraded libraries,
> > what I finally ended up doing was re-writing all the library symlinks
> > back to the old (2.1.3) library files, using commandline pairs such as:
> >
> >
> > rm -rf libdl.so.2
> > ln -sf libdl-2.1.3.so libdl.so.2
> >
> > for each symlink that I needed to change back, and then DELETING
> > any newer libraries completely from the /lib directory.
> >
> > And only then did I run lconfig.
>
> I thought what I did accomplishes the same thing. I deleted the 2.2.5
> files and then made new symlinks back to 2.1.3 using ldconfig rather than
> manually deleting and remaking all the links. Reverse order of what you
> did. Does your method accomplish something different? Can you run 'as'
> without an error message now?

Never tried. :)

Getting back my functionality was all that was important to me.

> According to Matrix Mole, you should have been able to overwrite the old
> symlinks with -sf without needing to delete them first.

Probably, but I was using an installation script as my model.

> And since ln
> won't work without a couple of the glibc libraries, I don't know how you
> managed to make new links with it after deleting the old ones to these
> files.

It worked just fine. They must have still been in memory.

Regards,
Ron

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