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GENTOO LINUX GENERAL ANNOUNCEMENT 200210-001 |
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PACKAGE : Portage |
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SUMMARY : library symlink mangling / deletion |
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SEVERITY: System Disabling |
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IMPACT : All Systems |
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DATE : 2002-10-28 22:00 UTC |
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A bug involving the interaction of 'ldconfig' and portage has been |
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identified for all systems using masked libraries. Libraries that |
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have been installed but are now masked in portage will be downgraded |
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by portage. In versions of portage prior to 2.0.43, portage creates |
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symlinks in the library directories properly for newly merged, but |
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older, library. A call to ldconfig causes these symlinks to be over- |
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written with what the system(ldconfig) assumes is the best, the |
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highest version, and then portage procedes to remove the symlinks |
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as they match how the previous version had set them. This problem |
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can result in users being locked out of systems as required libraries |
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are effectively disabled. |
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AFFECTED SYSTEMS |
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All systems using portage prior to portage-2.0.43 are succeptable. |
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Systems that have installed the latest versions of libraries that |
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have since been masked in portage are of major concern, and systems |
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with ncurses-5.3 installed can disable logins if 'emerge -u world' |
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is performed with ncurses-5.3 masked. |
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SOLUTION |
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Users experiencing missing library symlinks can do the following: |
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# ldconfig |
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# emerge rsync |
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# emerge '=portage-2.0.43' |
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If a root console is not accessable the following method may be used: |
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Systems using Grub: |
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press 'e' on your kernel |
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press 'e' over your kernel line |
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append without the quotes: |
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" init=/bin/sash" |
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press enter to finish the changes |
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press 'b' to boot the kernel |
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Systems using LILO: |
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at boot hold in left shift to get the prompt |
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type in your kernel's label (name) |
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You can get the list of kernel names by hitting <tab> at this point. |
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append to that label the following: ' init=/bin/sash' |
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You may also have to specify a 'root=' or other information. |
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press enter to boot the kernel |
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When at the '>' prompt type the following: |
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> mount -o remount,rw / |
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> /sbin/ldconfig |
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> mount -o remount,ro |
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> reboot |
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After running the above Grub or LILO commands, users should update to |
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portage-2.0.43 as stated above for users not locked out of their consoles. |
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carpaski@g.o |
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seemant@g.o |
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-- |
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Seemant Kulleen |
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Developer and Project Co-ordinator, |
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Gentoo Linux http://www.gentoo.org/~seemant |
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Public Key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x225EF866 |
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Key fingerprint = 592A 35F7 09CA FAB4 17B3 6E97 72E6 23CC 225E F866 |