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[Ron Clarke <ariadne AT acepia.net.au>]

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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