Gentoo Archives: gentoo-ppc-user

From: darren kirby <bulliver@×××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-ppc-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-ppc-user] Glibc pooched. Borked system.
Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2005 05:33:01
Message-Id: 200512072133.19820.bulliver@badcomputer.org
1 Hello all,
2
3 First, for reference, I have been using Gentoo for many years, on many
4 different systems and types of hardware.
5
6 Having purchased a new Powermac G5, I decided to use my old G4 as my web and
7 mail server, and keep the old server as a dedicated firewall. So: Install
8 went just fine, booted up first time, all is well. Then I do an 'emerge -u
9 world' to get up to date. This is where the troubles started...
10
11 At first, the glibc emerge broke. I found this bug, which certainly looked
12 relevant: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=78951
13
14 After trying the tip in post #11 glibc built, but bailed out whilst moving
15 files from the build directory to the live filesystem. Now everything
16 segfaults, from 'ls' to python (both 2.3 and 2.4).
17
18 So I guess I am resigned to a reinstall, though this really bugs me after the
19 time invested so far. I guess I have a few questions:
20
21 1. Is there any way around this? Are there binary packages of glibc for ppc I
22 could use to get around a reinstall? (wget still seems to work ;))
23
24 2. Is this problem a sign of things to come? Is gentoo on ppc not stable
25 enough to use as a server? Any advice from experts on this?
26
27 I am not trying to flame, place blame, or anything else. I am just looking for
28 comments from users experienced with Gentoo on PPC.
29
30 Thanks,
31 -d
32 --
33 darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org
34 "...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected..."
35 - Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, June 1972

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Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] Glibc pooched. Borked system. "David Bélanger" <dbelan2@×××××××××.ca>
Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] Glibc pooched. Borked system. Joseph Jezak <josejx@g.o>