2010/11/4 denisgolovan <[email protected]> > 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 >
To finish this thread: just a brief answer: does prelink has more advantages than disadvantages nowadays (I mean, with gcc-4.5.x)?
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