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From: Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] glibc-2.14.1 upgrade
Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2011 16:10:36
Message-Id: CAEH5T2NUci_ssSjiGcojY8E-3D2qYp06zkdfTRw=TjaBfod38Q@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] glibc-2.14.1 upgrade by Florian Philipp
1 On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 12:59 PM, Florian Philipp <lists@×××××××××××.net> wrote:
2 > Am 25.11.2011 19:11, schrieb Pandu Poluan:
3 >>
4 >> On Nov 26, 2011 12:05 AM, "΢²Ë" <microcai@×××××××××××××.org
5 >> <mailto:microcai@×××××××××××××.org>> wrote:
6 >>>
7 >>> ÓÚ 2011Äê11ÔÂ24ÈÕ 15:34, justin дµÀ:
8 >>> > On 24/11/11 06:27, Paul Hartman wrote:
9 >>> >> Hi,
10 >>> >>
11 >>> >> After emerging glibc-2.14.1 today, pam stopped working, which
12 >>> >> prevented KDE from working and some other things. I got this kind of
13 >>> >> message:
14 >>> >>
15 >>> >> /lib64/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.14' not found (required by
16 >>> >> /lib64/libcrypt.so.1)
17 >>> >>
18 >>> >> There were no @preserved-rebuild and revdep-rebuild found nothing. I
19 >>> >> rebuilt pam and things seem to be working again. Are there any other
20 >>> >> packages I should rebuild before encountering a problem? Or some way
21 >>> >> to detect which need to be rebuilt? Should I re-emerge world against
22 >>> >> my new glibc? :)
23 >>> >>
24 >>> >> Thanks,
25 >>> >> Paul
26 >>> >>
27 >>> >
28 >>> > Hi Paul,
29 >>> >
30 >>> > after an glibc upgrade it is time to do an
31 >>> >
32 >>> > emerge -e system world
33 >>>
34 >>> you must be kidding me . it will take days to complete.
35 >>>
36 >>
37 >> On my virtualized servers, emerge -e @system @world, a total of
38 >> 170-something packages, takes only about 6-7 hours. Remember, these are
39 >> VMs, which means the 2 vCPUs I assigned them are actually shared with
40 >> other VMs.
41 >>
42 >> On a non-virtualized system, should be faster. Of course, if you have
43 >> sizable packages, it might take around 24 hours to complete.
44 >>
45 >> Rgds,
46 >>
47 >
48 > I've used Gentoo since 2006 and never had any reason to emerge -e. I can
49 > also cite posts on this mailing list going back as far as 2007 (just my
50 > local archive, mind you) that say it is unnecessary for glibc updates.
51 > Or, to cite Volker Armin Hemmann's eloquent reply from 08-11-2007: "no" ;-)
52
53 Can I detect which packages need to be rebuilt (revdep-rebuild finds
54 nothing), other than waiting for something to fail? Or do you think
55 the messages are a false alarm, symptoms of already-loaded programs
56 and will go away after my next reboot?

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Re: [gentoo-user] glibc-2.14.1 upgrade Adam Carter <adamcarter3@×××××.com>