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[Thomas Orgis <thomas-forum AT orgis.org>]

Am Mon, 14 May 2007 08:33:32 +0200
schrieb Ingo Arndt <scachi AT gmx.de>: 

> I have installed Sourcemage using the ISO 0.9.6.3 on a new machine,
> everything was working fine up to the rebuild (stable grimoire)...
> After the sorcery / scribe update and rebuild I have now a problem as
> I can't log in anymore because glibc rebuild/update has failed and now bash
> tells me: "/lib/libc.so.6: Version GLIB_2.4 not found (required by -bash)"
> 
> How can I fix this ?

Eeek! You downgraded glibc, afaics.

glibc PREPARE (gah, rewrapping messed this up - I hope one still gets the
meaning):

if  [[  $(uname -r)  =  2.6.*  ]];  then
  if  test  "$HOST" == "i386-pc-linux-gnu"; then
    message "[[ ${QUERY_COLOR}Not building with NPTL as that's
unsupported on i386; use i486 or higher.${DEFAULT} ]]"
config_set_option GLIBC_NPTL n else
    config_query  GLIBC_NPTL  "As you are running a 2.6 kernel, would
you like to use the new nptl (Native Posix Thread Libary)?"  y
config_query  GLIBC_USEIDN  "Would you like to compile glibc with
libidn support?" y fi fi  &&
[...]

When GLIBC_NPTL=n, you will install glibc-2.3.6, which is a bad idea
when you are currently running glibc-2.4 . Di you change to a 2.4 kernel?
Did you set the architecture to i386 - or indeed said "no" to the query?

Perhaps we should prevent a glibc downgrade from happening unless
INSTALL_ROOT is set. I _will_ break your system.
(With INSTALL_ROOT, you are able to create a downgraded-glibc chroot
with static linking in the first run and recompile inside).

What you now need is a cache tarball of glibc-2.4 which you untar from 
a boot cd (or your busybox-based rescue initramfs;-)... or just reinstall.


Thomas.

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