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["Sergey A. Lipnevich" <sergey AT optimaltec.com>]

After ncurses is built and old version is dispelled, sorcery tries to 
run INSTALL and fails somewhere in the beginning with a bash-induced 
error (something about libncursesw.so.5). So ncurses stays dispelled. 
After that, bash doesn't start, with the same error. Happened on i586 
and on x86_64.

George Sherwood wrote:

> On Sun, 2005-10-16 at 12:49 -0400, Sergey A. Lipnevich wrote:
>  
>
> > Hi All,
> >
> > It looks like ncurses upgrade from 5.4 to 5.5 never works right because 
> > after dispelling the old version sorcery fails to install a new one. The 
> > reason is that new bash process can't be started, it misses ncurses 
> > shared libs. The solution for now is to copy /sbin/bash.static to 
> > /bin/bash and recast ncurses (and then bash).
> > I tried it on two machines with test grimoire, both had the same problem.
> >    
>
> How does this fail for you?  I have successfully updated to ncurses 5.5
> on two different machines.  At least from all I can tell was successful.
>