Yes, touch /etc/ld.so.preload was dangerous.......... once I have a typo
in /etc/ld.so.preload and made the whole system unusable (before I found a
way to boot with rescue floppy).
Abel Cheung
On Mon, 2 Apr 2001, Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> DO NOT upgrade libsafe from 1.3 to 2.0! If you have libsafe in your
> /etc/ld.so.preload you will break your running system if you do!
>
> The safest thing to do would be to remove that library from
> /etc/ld.so.preload *before* doing any upgrade.
>
> Cooker-makers, can we please have the pre-install script for libsafe
> edit the old libsafe library out of the ld.so.preload? The
> post-install should probably put it back in if it was removed by the
> pre-install. Methinks testing and clearing the LD_PRELOAD env. var.
> would be a good idea too.
>
> b.
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