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  • From: Dufflebunk <dufflebunk AT dufflebunk.homeip.net>
  • To: ^GiuAnZ^ <djcomputer AT gmx.net>
  • Cc: Robin <robin AT kallisti.2y.net>, sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] glibc badness
  • Date: 19 Oct 2002 17:06:42 -0400

Here is a simpler solution that worked for me. It was spewing debug
message (since I run with debugging on), so for most people it might
just sseem hung, I ^C'ed it and ran ldconfig. Everything worked again.

On Sat, 2002-10-19 at 15:02, ^GiuAnZ^ wrote:
> Alle 15:16, sabato 19 ottobre 2002, Robin ha scritto:
> > I just updated glibc, and it fried my machine. (Well, the install SEEMED
> > OK, but sorcery thought otherwise), and now I have no glibc at all, which
> > is a Bad Bad Thing. I'm currently in text mode knoppix, working through a
> > shell account (yay ufies.org :) however, needless to say, I'd like my
> > machine back up and running ASAP. Is there a quick fix?
> >
> > (Sorry about long lines, I have no choice of video mode that knoppix
> > uses...I can't even use X, as the default freq makes my monitor turn off)
>
> I've had the same problem. In my case it relied on some old libraries that
> were moved to /usr/scr/glibc-2.3.1/old.libraries, while they should be
> simply
> deleted; dunno why the glibc spell or the configure script do things that
> way.
>
> After successful build (but unsucessful from the sorcery point of view)
> bash
> was complaining it was unable to find glibc 2.2.5 in
> /usr/src/glibc-2.3.1/old.libraries. Then I thought "hey, it should use
> 2.3.1,
> not the old 2.2.5, so that sh*t old.libraries should be removed".
> Unfortunately this is not so simple because, if the system is not able to
> load glibc, everything is f*cked up! No command worked and the system
> wasn't
> even able to boot anymore.
>
> I've managed to go through it and here's my quick fix:
>
> - boot from sgl cdrom
> - continue booting
> - nls (set your keyboard)
> - shell
> - mount your root fs (or the one containing /usr) on /mnt (e.g. mount [-t
> reiserfs-or-what-fs-you-use] /dev/hda1 /mnt)
> - rm -rvf /mnt/usr/src/glibc-2.3.1/old.libraries (or rename it if you feel
> more comfortable)
> - reboot
> - the system should be ok now but, to clean things, do a cast -c glibc (it
> shouldn't break again).
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> --
> ^GiuAnZ^ - Giovanni Lopedote, Bari, Italy
> (damn busy at the moment)
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