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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: Tue, 09 Dec 2008 01:03:46
Message-Id: ghkg4p$eab$1@ger.gmane.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] mcview (mc -v) stopped working after glib update by Nikos Chantziaras
1 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
2 > Weird problem this one. I updated to sys-libs/glibc-2.9_p20081201 (from
3 > 2.8_p20080602) and everything appears to be just fine. With one
4 > exception: viewing files in Midnight Commander's built-in viewer doesn't
5 > work anymore. Pressing F3 (View) does nothing. Calling `mcview` or `mc
6 > -v file` also does nothing; the application simply exits with no error
7 > messages (or any other messages; just nothing).
8 >
9 > Anyone encountered this? I've rebuild mc of course and revdep-rebuild
10 > shows all is OK.
11
12 I've solved it. I had to go ~arch on sys-kernel/linux-headers and
13 rebuild glibc. I was using stable headers before (2.6.23-r3). After I
14 upgraded to ~amd64 2.6.27-r2 and emerged glibc again, the bug went away.
15
16 One more for the archive. Thanks anyone for trying to help :)

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