Well. You were right. As always :) I looked for similar problems (xmalloc) and found that the issue could be related to prelink. So, booting from LiveCD and running prelink -au in chroot reverted all prelinking, and I was able to downgrade smoothly!
04.11.10, 10:22, "Ciaran McCreesh" <[email protected]>: > On Thu, 04 Nov 2010 00:56:34 +0300denisgolovan <[email protected]>; > wrote: I am experiencing difficulties with downgrading glibc from > 2.12.1-r2 to 2.11.2-r3 on Gentoo. The reason for this is my system > (2.6.36 kernel) refuses to boot with 2.12.1-r2.You can't safely downgrade in > any particular slot of a package providinga shared library, although > sometimes you get lucky if you try. When thepackage in question is something > like glibc, it's almost certainly notgoing to work.Instead, you should fix > whatever it is that makes you think that -r3won't let your system boot. I > doubt that glibc is the real problem.-- Ciaran McCreesh -- Regards, Denis Golovan aka MageSlayer _______________________________________________ paludis-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pioto.org/mailman/listinfo/paludis-user
