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Avoiding 1, 2, and 3 but thought I'd propose a 4 other than a virtual |
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machine. Ask the vendor if they can provide a statically compiled |
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version, that way you don't have to worry about libc. I dunno how |
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flexible the vendor is but its worth asking :) |
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On 10/30/09, Duncan Smith <duncanphilipnorman@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> The company I work for is using gentoo on all its machines. We just |
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> got a license to a commercial tool which does not support gentoo. The |
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> closest thing it supports is RHEL v4. |
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> |
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> Running any command provided by the tool results in an explosive |
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> memory leak (virtual memory hits 400G in 1 second, and continues to |
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> climb). |
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> |
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> I suspect the problem is that RHEL v4 uses =sys-libs/glibc-2.3.4, |
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> whereas we have =sys-libs/glibc-2.9_p20081201-r2 installed. |
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> |
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> I have three questions: |
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> 1. Am I posting to the right list? |
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> 2. Any idea what's going on? Could it be something other than glibc |
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> causing the problem? |
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> 3. If it is glibc, is there some way to install glibc slotted? Could |
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> I install an old version of glibc to some other lib folder (like |
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> /opt/lib64), and then use LD_LIBRARY_PATH somehow to get the tool to |
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> look there first? How? |
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> Thanks for any help or ideas. |
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> Duncan |
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> P.S. In case it's useful, here is the output of ldd: |
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> linux-vdso.so.1 => (0x00007fff9e3ff000) |
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> libncurses.so.5 => /lib/libncurses.so.5 (0x00007f49c871b000) |
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> libresolv.so.2 => /lib/libresolv.so.2 (0x00007f49c8503000) |
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> libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x00007f49c827e000) |
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> libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f49c807a000) |
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> libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x00007f49c7d07000) |
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> /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f49c897a000) |
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Kyle |