[psyche] Re: [psyche] Re: [RHSA-2003:067-01] Updated XFree86 packages provide security and bug fixes

Well, what I *really* ran was this:

for file in *; do if file $file | grep 'not stripped' > /dev/null; then strip $file; fi; done

That will only do actual binaries that are not stripped.  I am running X
just fine right now after that...

Raul

Charles Curley wrote:

 > On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 11:41:38AM -0700, Raul Acevedo wrote:
 > > Just running strip on everything in /usr/X11R6/{bin,lib} ought to take
 > > care of this if you're already installed the RPMs, right?
 > 
 > Not a good idea.
 > 
 > [root@issola X11R6]# du -hs .
 > 193M    .
 > [root@issola X11R6]# find . -type f | xargs strip
 > 
 > # All sorts of "File format not recognized" messages. I'm sure I could
 >   have refined the search, but what the heck.
 > 
 > [root@issola X11R6]# du -hs .
 > 57M     .
 > 
 > However, that crashed X. With a lot of "No Symbols found"
 > messages. Oops.
 > 
 > It might work better if you don't strip the modules. Anyone want to
 > try that?
 > 
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