Re: [gentoo-user] Re: glibc completed screwed my system

[David Grant]

On 9/1/06, James <wireless@×××××××××××.com> wrote:
> David Grant <davidgrant <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
>
> > > If anyone can help me I'm desperate to save this system and not have
> > > to reinstall.
>
>
> Well, I have lost xwindows/kde on (2) systems because of an upgrade of
> make.profile to point to 2006.1. I'm sure glibc was part of the problem.
>
> A third syxtem, an amd64,  sits just slobering and drooling about;
> it will not even allow ls or cat to run.....
> so I'm not so sure this one can be saved without a re-installation.
>
> It'd sure been nice if there was a little bit more detail on this,
> problem and recovery options. I've googled for links that help, but found
> nothing.
>
> So how is the new 2006.1 liveCD working these days?  I'm soon to find
> out, on at least one system, maybe (3),
>
> Any ideas on recovery mechanisms,  for this make.profile/glibc
> problem are most welcome......
>
> I think I'll just drink (quite a lot) and read this list to see how
> the smarter half of this list dance around these pending upgrades.
> I'm quite sure it's my fault, I just do not have the fortitude
> to fight through another twisted hack-fest of a weekend.

Well all I can say is that without my quickpkg I would probably have
been screwed. Although there is still one other thing I could have
done. I could have grabbed a quickpkg of glibc from another box
(although that box has the newest glibc so actually that wouldn't have
worked). It would probably be possible to find someone on the mailing
list with similar hardware and the correct version of glibc that you
want and they could send you the glibc quickpkg'd up for you.

Here is pretty much the bug as I experienced it:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=125868

You can see detail there on how I solved it. My system is now fully
working and recovered.

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David Grant
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