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[Ron Clarke <ariadne AT earthlink.com.au>]

Hi Folks,

On Tue, 8 Jun 2004 09:42:08 +1000
Ron Clarke <ariadne AT earthlink.com.au> wrote:

> Hi Folks,
> 
> On Sat, 29 May 2004 18:59:31 +0000 (UTC)
> Matrix Mole <matrixm AT sdf.lonestar.org> wrote:
> 
> > Just a short update on my system in case anyones interested :)
> > 
> > I installed glibc.so 2.3.2 and the program newsplex 4.2 works perfectly
> > now. 
> 
>    Me too.  :)
> 
>    I finally worked up the courage to try again (after my previous disaster)
> and nothing seems to be broken.

   And of course, I spoke too soon.   :(

   First thing I noticed was that Links (graphic) was no longer able to go 
anywhere,
including on my own machine. Every time I tried to go to a URL, or look at my 
file 
system, I got chucked out with a segmentation fault.  And this is my 
favourite browser !
   So, maybe, I thought, there is a misslinked library ?

   So I ran ldconfig ......    BIG MISTAKE !   Completely scrambled my 
libraries and
nothing worked, not HALT, not even the three fingered salute ! 
Had to turn the machine off at the case switch.

   Fortunately, because of my previous stuff-up, I had taken the precaution 
of copying
the complete /lib directory (from before the SW9.1 additions) to a backup 
directory. 
So with BL3 (thank you, thaank you !) I was able to empty the BL21 /lib and 
reload the 
backup, and I was back on the air with BL21 again.  And now Links -graphic 
works again.

   Does anyone have a clue as to what might be missing for Links graphic ?  
The error 
message is:

svgalib: Signal 11: Segmentation fault received

   Is it the case, as with the SW8.1 libraries to get Opera/Phoenix to run, 
that one
would need to also install another library(ies) to support the first ?

   Looking at the install routine for the SW9.1 glibc-solibs-xxxx.tgz it 
specifically 
does NOT run ldconfig - it says so in the comments.   Does this also mean 
that if 
ldconfig is run - for any reason at all - in the future, that it will always 
scramble
my libraries ?

   Bugger !   I had xine running just fine with the SW9.1 glibc, too !

Regards,
        Ron   .....  learning the hard way ..... still !

-- 
Ron Clarke 
AUSREG Consultancy      http://www.valylink.net.au/~ausreg/index.html
Tadpole Tunes           http://tadpole.mytunebook.de/
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