----- Original Message ----- From: "Jens Mayer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 6:36 AM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Critical warning: Do not update GLIBC!
| * On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 20:38:53 -0500, Jerry McBride wrote: | | > It seems odd that a few people are having problems with the 232r9 glibc. I | > just rolled it out on three machines, 1 amdXP, 1 amdMobile an old k6-2 and a | > k6-3 systems and no errors. All running 2.6.1 kernels, NPTL and the latest | > gcc... | | After the DEPEND/DEPEND problem[1] with glibc-2.3.2r9 and NPTL I emerged | gcc-3.3.2-r5, trying to solve that problem (which it didn't). | | Now I see NPTL support has been removed from glibc-2.3.2r9, solving | the DEPEND/DEPEND problem. | | My question is this: Will upgrading a "NPTLed glibc" to a "non NPTLed | glibc" cause known problems (i. e. with applications that have been | compiled with the "NPTLed glibc")? Are there any more users who broke | their system upgrading this way? Is there someone who can tell us a | bit more about it? I had the nptl use flag enabled from the installation days but disabled it yesterday just before I updated glibc since portage was giving depend mismatch errors. Then I updated glibc which is the reason I have to reinstall the entire OS now. Whether the toggling of the use flag is the cause or not I'm not sure but logistically it could be. | Reading the reports from Eric and Dhruba at bugzilla[2] and on this | mailinglist, I'm a bit scared of upgrading to glibc-2.3.2-r9 using | a system set up as mine. | | I'd be very happy for some clarifications. ;) | | Thank you for your warnings in here, Dhruba! I wouldn't have | recognized that issue and probably ran into the same problems. My pleasure. I can't quite believe that I've lost the entire system to a routine package update on the stable tree. As soon as I realised I mailed the list. Strangely, AMD systems seem to be unaffected judging from other messages on this thread. Anyway, I'm stuck on XP until I can find the time to reinstall. Life sucks. Dhruba. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
