Re: Problems with new glibc

John Ketchum <[email protected]> Wed, 19 Nov 2003 09:04:34 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.linux.redhat.release.psyche
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At 11:15 AM 11/19/2003 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote:
>On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 23:23, John Ketchum wrote:
> > At 08:49 AM 11/18/2003 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote:
> > >On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 02:36, John Ketchum wrote:
> > > > I went away for a week, and while I was away, apt-get upgraded glibc
> > > > packages to 2.3.2-4.80.8 on my RH8 machine.  X is now broken
> > >
> > >There should be an even newer glibc out by now that fixes this problem.
> >
> > I'm having this problem with the latest release.  I just checked and there
> > is not a more recent one available.
> > I fixed the problem (for the moment) by down-grading to the previous
> > version of glibc.
>
>Your options then are:
>
>1. stay with the downgraded glibc
>2. upgrade to the latest redhat kernel and see if that works
>    (2.4.20-20.8)

I'm running that now.  Doesn't seem to make any difference whether I'm 
running the latest RH kernel, an earlier RH kernel, or a custom compiled kernel

>3. set LD_ASSUME_KERNEL to ...?

Don't understand this option...can you point me to more info?

>4. upgrade to fedora!
Hmmmm.. might be an option...what's the difference between fedora and RH9?


>I tried to find the messages that listed various problems and how to fix
>them with the latest glibc update, but I couldn't find it...
>
>Just a thought, did you upgrade to the correct arch version of glibc?
>
>HTH,
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>
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John Ketchum
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