On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 06:21:32PM +0100, Tony van der Hoff enlightened us: > I recently updated my linux distro from Mandrake 10.1 to 10.2. Rather > foolishly, I decided to upgrade Amanda from 2.4.4 to 2.4.5 at the same time. > [I know - only change one thing at a time :( ] > > Anyway, the result was that Amanda would no longer work, with the dreaded > "selfcheck request timed out". Finally, after much pulling out of hair, I > tracked down the cause to amandad not starting, because of a dependancy on > libintl.so.2, while the new distro only provides libintl.so.3. As a quick > fix, I symlinked .2 to .3, and got Amanda working. > > Question: why this dependance on a rather ancient (2003) library? Will it > hurt to stick with the symlink, or should I obtain a .2 library?
How did you install amanda? If it was a pre-built RPM, then chances are that the build machine had libintl.so.2 on it. This is a good argument for building your own amanda either from source or via SRPMs. Matt -- Matt Hyclak Department of Mathematics Department of Social Work Ohio University (740) 593-1263
