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[Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>]

On Sat, Feb 19, 2005 at 10:44:09AM +0100, Flavien Bridault wrote:
> Le Samedi 19 Février 2005 08:23, Ladislav Hagara a écrit :
> > Howdy all,
> >
> > just found out, after sorcery system-update, that my box is totally
> > broken. It is related to new glibc integrated yesterday to test
> > grimoire. Just trying to rescue it as described at
> > https://lists.ibiblio.org/sympa/arc/sm-discuss/2005-January/008929.html
> > I do not think it will be only my problem.
> I had the problem yesterday, doing a cast --queue. The issue has been glibc 
> casted twice, because of a TRIGGER in glibc-kernel-headers. Well and I 
> don't 
> know why, but glibc failed to cast the second time. I was able to reproduce 
> it later [0].

I'm really sorry about that trigger, those of us on devel have been so
long without the glibc-kernel-headers spell that we all forgot to remove
it.
All I can say about that failure so far is that the compile line in the
bug is definitely missing some includes, but I don't know why yet.

> So if you have the same problem than me, you will need to untar a previous 
> working glibc in /var/cache/sorcery, and also, maybe util-linux since it is 
> triggered by glibc. After that you need to do a ldconfig. But if you have 
> the 
> same problem as me, you can not chroot. However you can do a 
> 
> ldconfig -r myroot/
> 
> Or, as swoolley suggested, you can also boot with the following options 
> init=/sbin/ldconfig, that should work too.
> 
> I hope that can help you.
> 
> [0] http://bugs.sourcemage.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8277
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Arwed v. Merkatz                              Source Mage GNU/Linux developer
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