On Mon, 2004-01-19 at 14:43, Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote:
> Hello
>
> This is just to stop others sharing the misfortune that occurred to me. I
> updated glibc to 2.3.2-r9 on stable x86 tree and it broke python, portage
> and also most applications.
>
> Do NOT perform this update until bug 38619 [1] has been worked out.
After seeing some successes posted to the list, I updated this morning.
Haven't rebooted but so far so good:
www root # emerge search glibc | grep -A 5 'sys-libs\/glibc'
* sys-libs/glibc
Latest version available: 2.3.2-r9
Latest version installed: 2.3.2-r9
Size of downloaded files: 14,946 kB
Homepage: http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/libc.html
Description: GNU libc6 (also called glibc2) C library
www root #
My system info is below if it would be helpful to anyone thinking of
attempting same.
-Collin
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University of Colorado Department of Economics
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www root # emerge --info
Portage 2.0.49-r21 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r9, 2.4.22-gentoo-r5)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.4.22-gentoo-r5 i686 Pentium III (Coppermine)
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.10
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config
/usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/alias /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo";
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X apm arts avi berkdb crypt cups encode esd foomaticdb gdbm gif gnome gpm gtk
gtk2 imlib java jpeg kde libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mpeg mysql ncurses nls
oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline sdl slang spell
ssl svga tcpd truetype x86 xml2 xmms xv zlib"
www root # uname -a
Linux www 2.4.22-gentoo-r5 #1 Mon Jan 19 12:11:02 GMT 2004 i686 Pentium III
(Coppermine) GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
www root # emerge search binutils | grep -A 5 'sys-devel\/binutils$'
* sys-devel/binutils
Latest version available: 2.14.90.0.7-r4
Latest version installed: 2.14.90.0.7-r4
Size of downloaded files: 10,327 kB
Homepage: http://sources.redhat.com/binutils/
Description: Tools necessary to build programs
www root #
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