[EMAIL PROTECTED] said at �[expert] What is the best way to Upgrade
glibc ??�.
[2000-10-02 21:57]

> Does anyone know the best way to upgrade glibc libraries?  I always do a
> 'rpm -Uvh glibc-<version>.i586.rpm'
> But that make my system a little bit unstable since most programs make
> use of glibc in one way or another.
>
> After I do an upgade of glibc I always reboot my computer,  but I
> experience problems like:  Some programs won't gracefully die and the
> root filesystem refuses to umount which can lead to loss of files
> (luckily never happend)..  This also happens when I do the upgade in
> single usermode.
>

I have no problems upgrading glibc with rpm -U. Even I can continue
working, but
I usually reboot the systems to make it reload the new glibc and not work
with
the old cached in memory by ld.so. Your problem probably comes from some
dependency
of glibc (try locales...). Perhaps you are moving from libc5 to libc6;
install
also the libc5-compat packages before reboot, to be able to run any old
executable.


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