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From: Collin Starkweather <collin.starkweather@××××××××××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: gentoo-user@l.g.o, gentoo-server@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-server] Re: [gentoo-user] Critical warning: Do not update GLIBC!
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 20:30:58
Message-Id: 1074630040.9847.1124.camel@localhost
1 On Mon, 2004-01-19 at 14:43, Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote:
2 > Hello
3 >
4 > This is just to stop others sharing the misfortune that occurred to me. I
5 > updated glibc to 2.3.2-r9 on stable x86 tree and it broke python, portage
6 > and also most applications.
7 >
8 > Do NOT perform this update until bug 38619 [1] has been worked out.
9
10 After seeing some successes posted to the list, I updated this morning.
11 Haven't rebooted but so far so good:
12
13 www root # emerge search glibc | grep -A 5 'sys-libs\/glibc'
14 * sys-libs/glibc
15 Latest version available: 2.3.2-r9
16 Latest version installed: 2.3.2-r9
17 Size of downloaded files: 14,946 kB
18 Homepage: http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/libc.html
19 Description: GNU libc6 (also called glibc2) C library
20 www root #
21
22 My system info is below if it would be helpful to anyone thinking of
23 attempting same.
24
25 -Collin
26
27 --
28 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
29 Collin Starkweather, Ph.D. collin.starkweather@××××××××××××××××××.com
30 University of Colorado Department of Economics
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32
33 www root # emerge --info
34 Portage 2.0.49-r21 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r9, 2.4.22-gentoo-r5)
35 =================================================================
36 System uname: 2.4.22-gentoo-r5 i686 Pentium III (Coppermine)
37 Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.10
38 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
39 AUTOCLEAN="yes"
40 CFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -pipe"
41 CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
42 COMPILER="gcc3"
43 CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/alias /var/qmail/control"
44 CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d"
45 CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -pipe"
46 DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
47 FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox"
48 GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
49 MAKEOPTS="-j2"
50 PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
51 PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
52 PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
53 PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
54 SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
55 USE="X apm arts avi berkdb crypt cups encode esd foomaticdb gdbm gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 imlib java jpeg kde libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mpeg mysql ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline sdl slang spell ssl svga tcpd truetype x86 xml2 xmms xv zlib"
56
57 www root # uname -a
58 Linux www 2.4.22-gentoo-r5 #1 Mon Jan 19 12:11:02 GMT 2004 i686 Pentium III (Coppermine) GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
59
60 www root # emerge search binutils | grep -A 5 'sys-devel\/binutils$'
61 * sys-devel/binutils
62 Latest version available: 2.14.90.0.7-r4
63 Latest version installed: 2.14.90.0.7-r4
64 Size of downloaded files: 10,327 kB
65 Homepage: http://sources.redhat.com/binutils/
66 Description: Tools necessary to build programs
67 www root #