From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QeHRm-0006VC-6h for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 06 Jul 2011 02:02:38 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A3B4021C041 for ; Wed, 6 Jul 2011 02:02:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from qmta05.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net (qmta05.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net [76.96.30.48]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 117DC21C037 for ; Wed, 6 Jul 2011 01:32:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from omta16.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.30.72]) by qmta05.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id 4RXp1h0051ZMdJ4A5RXzVq; Wed, 06 Jul 2011 01:31:59 +0000 Received: from ajax ([24.11.47.14]) by omta16.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id 4RVy1h01f0JMh7c8cRW1NM; Wed, 06 Jul 2011 01:30:03 +0000 Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2011 21:31:48 -0400 From: Frank Peters To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-amd64] Glibc Update Breaks Open/LibreOffice -- Can't Downgrade Message-Id: <20110705213148.ca51f2ac.frank.peters@comcast.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.1.1 (GTK+ 2.24.5; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: e24ae4b219177b4f91878323904caa94 Hello, Today my system automatically updated glibc from 2.12-rc2 to 2.12-rc3. Shortly afterwards I tried to start OpenOffice and it would not start. The error message: Inconsistency detected by ld.so: dl-deps.c: 622: _dl_map_object_deps: Assertion `nlist > 1' failed! (The same problem is reported here: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-6744468.html) Apparently this is due to the glibc update. A quick fix (since I need OpenOffice) would be to simply downgrade back to glibc-2.12-r2, but emerge will not allow me to do it: * Sanity check to keep you from breaking your system: * Downgrading glibc is not supported and a sure way to destruction * ERROR: sys-libs/glibc-2.13-r2 failed (setup phase): * aborting to save your system I'm not going to break my system. How do I override this? Note: I am not using the compiled Gentoo version of OpenOffice. My installation is the binary version from the OO web site. Also, LibreOffice, which I installed (from binary) as a possible fix, gives the same error message. Frank Peters