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"Hemmann, Volker Armin" <volker.armin.hemmann@××××××××××××.de> posted |
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200610232110.58523.volker.armin.hemmann@××××××××××××.de, excerpted below, |
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on Mon, 23 Oct 2006 21:10:58 +0200: |
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> DO NEVER downgrade glibc! I have been there, bitten by it very, very |
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> hard. A nonbooting system, because not even udev runs, is a big problem |
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> (I solved it, but it cost me time, sweat and tears). |
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That's what a backup image, a snapshot of the system taken periodically |
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when everything is known to be working, is useful for. =8^) |
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As I said, I had to boot to the backup to allow me to do the downgrade |
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to my main system using ROOT=, but it worked. |
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> and rebuilt EVERYTHING that was built against the new glibc! Every |
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> single app, every lib, everything. You miss something and you will |
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> suffer. |
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Actually, I was expecting issues, but haven't had any so far but one, |
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easily fixed. As you mentioned, the latest kernel didn't want to boot, so |
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there again I backed up a couple notches and got a working one, but |
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everything else I had merged since then, notably including all of KDE |
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3.5.5, merged against glibc-2.5, seems to be working great against |
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glibc-2.4-r4, which as it happens was merged only a couple weeks earlier |
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-- actually that's probably my saving grace or I'd likely have had more |
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issues. |
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As it is, booting 2.6.18 with glibc-2.4-r4 works great, better than |
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2.6.19-rc2 with glibc-2.5 actually, due to the crashes that started the |
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whole thing on the latter combo. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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