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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

I just tried to removepkg glibc (2.1.3) and was told that glibc was not on 
the list in /var/log/packages of programs on the computer (because it had 
been removed during the attempt to upgrade, possibly because whoever wrote 
upgradepkg did not expect people to run out of disk space).

I deleted it manually instead:  rm /lib/*2.1.3
Is there anything else I should have deleted?

I then tried to installpkg glibc-2.2.5 and at the end got several pages of
rm or ln errors:  error while loading shared libraries:  /libc.so.6:  
invalid ELF header.  I can use ln, I just checked.  Also rm.

So whatever I have done to my computer is also making it impossible to 
upgrade glibc.  I wonder what I did?

as still gives the same error message about invalid ELF headers.

Everything else seems to work, but I cannot compile.  Time to make another
linux computer without mixed libraries.  This one has a rattly loud power
supply fan anyway.



> I attempted to 
> upgradepkg glibc.tgz%glibc-2.2.5-i386-2.tgz
> (the .tgz may not be needed)
> and it started to copy files to /lib/incoming and after a while told me 
> no space left on device (My hard drive is full of things left over
> from compiling lynx statically including ncurses and openssl and zlib)
> 
> So I deleted all the files from /lib/incoming (about 8M)
> and the glibc.tgz on my hard drive and tried again but it still ran out
> of space.  I found glibc-2.2.5.so type files in /lib/incoming, along with 
> the same file names for 2.1.3 but all 0 length (deleted ones which matched 
> what was already in /lib).
> 
> I gave up on this, left 2.1.3 there (it had not been removed because there 
> was not space to copy 2.2.5 from incoming to /lib, at which point there 
> would have been three three copies of glibc, I think), and upgraded just 
> glibcso to 2.2.5.  Opera works again.  as and ar don't work, but they were 
> not working before with the glibcso upgrade.