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From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: mcview (mc -v) stopped working after glib update
Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2008 23:35:39
Message-Id: ghkavh$1c1$1@ger.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] mcview (mc -v) stopped working after glib update by Paul Hartman
1 Paul Hartman wrote:
2 > On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 3:55 PM, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de> wrote:
3 >> Weird problem this one. I updated to sys-libs/glibc-2.9_p20081201 (from
4 >> 2.8_p20080602) and everything appears to be just fine. With one exception:
5 >> viewing files in Midnight Commander's built-in viewer doesn't work anymore.
6 >> Pressing F3 (View) does nothing. Calling `mcview` or `mc -v file` also
7 >> does nothing; the application simply exits with no error messages (or any
8 >> other messages; just nothing).
9 >>
10 >> Anyone encountered this? I've rebuild mc of course and revdep-rebuild shows
11 >> all is OK.
12 >
13 > It still works fine for me. I'm using ~amd64 and these versions:
14 >
15 > sys-libs/glibc-2.9_p20081201
16 > app-misc/mc-4.6.2_pre1
17 >
18 > I didn't do anything special after upgrading glibc.
19 >
20 > Does MC use "file" or some similar command to identify what kind of
21 > document it is opening? Perhaps some supporting utility is broken on
22 > your side for some reason.
23
24 I've rebuild everything mc uses to no avail. I made a "quickpgk glibc"
25 before upgrading in hope to revert back if something like this happens,
26 but I was not aware of this:
27
28
29 emerge --usepkgonly glibc
30 Calculating dependencies... done!
31
32 >>> Emerging binary (1 of 1) sys-libs/glibc-2.8_p20080602
33 * glibc-2.8_p20080602.tbz2 MD5 SHA1 size ;-) [ ok ]
34 >>> Extracting info
35 * Sanity check to keep you from breaking your system:
36 * Downgrading glibc is not supported and a sure way to destruction
37
38
39 I just got owned?

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mcview (mc -v) stopped working after glib update Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com>