2007/3/6, Michael Homer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 3/6/07, Carlo Calica <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 3/5/07, Lucas C. Villa Real <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > It shouldn't make difference. Detsch tested the upgrade on a 2.3 > > > system moving to a 2.4. I have never tried myself to upgrade Glibc. > > > Can anyone take a look into this? Maybe by running gobo inside qemu or > > > other emulator.. I don't have the time to test that right now, > > > unfortunately. > > > > > > > I tested a Glibc upgrade in qemu. Fresh 013 install. InstallPackage > > Scripts and Compile. Compile DHCPCD (we need a new bin package). > > InstallPackage Glibc. D/L and sig check fine. During SyminkProgram, > > fine until ldconfig, then get "FATAL: kernel too old" error messages. > > Now nothing works. On reboot, init dies with "FATAL: kernel too old". > > I'll upgrade kernels and check again. > That's exactly what happened for me. For the record, for anybody else > who runs into this problem, here's how I fixed it: > 1) Boot into another distro - I used Gentoo, but it shouldn't matter > what. Mount the Gobo partition on /mnt/gobo. > 2) cd /mnt/gobo/Programs/Glibc > 3) rm -r 2.5 > 4) rm Current > 5) ln -s 2.4 Current > 6) cd /mnt/gobo/System/Links/Libraries > 7) ln -sf ../../Programs/Glibc/2.4/lib/* . > 8) cd ../Executables > 9) ln -sf ../../Programs/Glibc/2.4/bin/* . > 10) rm -f /mnt/gobo/System/Settings/ld.so.conf (it's a symlink) > 11) echo /System/Links/Libraries > /mnt/gobo/System/Settings/ld.so.conf > 12) ldconfig -r /mnt/gobo -f /System/Settings/ld.so.conf -C > /System/Settings/ld.so.cache > 13) cp /mnt/gobo/System/Settings/ld.so.cache /mnt/gobo/Programs/Glibc/Settings > 14) chroot /mnt/gobo (this should work _at this point, and no sooner_) > 15) SymlinkProgram Glibc 2.4 > 16) Reboot into Gobo > All those commands need to be run as root - under sudo is fine. It's > also possible that some of those commands aren't actually necessary, I > didn't perform rigorous elimination testing on them. It might be > worthwhile making up a statically-linked binary to perform those steps > in an emergency and including it in Scripts, if there's no way to > avoid it. > -Michael Steps 2-9 can be skipped by using RescueSymlinkprogram, which is a static binary included in Scripts, instead. That should probably also take care of reseting your ld.* files as well.
And you can use the GoboLinux install CD (one does most probably have one lying around). -- /Jonas _______________________________________________ gobolinux-devel mailing list gobolinux-devel@lists.gobolinux.org http://lists.gobolinux.org/mailman/listinfo/gobolinux-devel
