Re: [gentoo-amd64] ldconfig breaks my system

[Alex Bennee <alex@bennee.com>]

On Sun, 2005-07-17 at 18:59 -0700, Zac Medico wrote:
> Alex Bennee wrote:
> > 
> > Yes that one. I've been unable to succesfully upgrade to 2.3.5 without
> > hitting the failure. However I left my system building a fresh partition
> > from scratch over the weekend - it managed to upgrade to 2.3.5 without a
> > problem. 
> > 
> > Something has obviously broken on my main partition that is preventing
> > the update. Perhaps the difference in ld.so.conf explain things?
> > 
> 
> So, your system is still broken?  You can use quickpkg to make a binary package
> from the glibc that you built on the fresh partition.  Try to install that binary package.
> If that doesn't work then you can do it by brute force: untar the binary package directly
>  onto your broken system and run ldconfig.

I wasn't able to install the binary package properly (as ldconfig is
called during the emerge process). However as I was stracing the
ldconfig output to compare with the working setup I realised I wasn't
logging stderr so hit Ctrl-C and restarted ldconfig.

This seems to of "unstuck" the ldconfig failure and I have been able to
run ldconfig without breaking things since. I've done a proper src
emerge of glibc on a chrooted in my original partiton and everything
seems to be working ok now.

The config has been updated during the env-update so I wonder if it was
a subtle breakage in the config that was causing the failure?

malory etc # diff -ub ld.so.conf ldconfig.backup/ld.so.conf
--- ld.so.conf  2005-07-17 22:41:47.000000000 +0100
+++ ldconfig.backup/ld.so.conf  2005-06-19 23:31:13.000000000 +0100
@@ -10,9 +10,7 @@
 /usr/lib32
 /usr/local/lib32
 /usr/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/lib
-/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.3
-/usr/lib/gcc-lib/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.2
-/usr/lib/gcc-lib/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.2/32
+/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.3/.
 /usr/lib/MozillaFirefox
 /usr/lib/mozilla
 /usr/lib


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