From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DtSon-0002Tu-K5 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 15 Jul 2005 16:13:42 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j6FGC7PS026285; Fri, 15 Jul 2005 16:12:07 GMT Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.205]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j6FGC6a6012516 for ; Fri, 15 Jul 2005 16:12:06 GMT Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id s18so365066nze for ; Fri, 15 Jul 2005 09:12:23 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:x-accept-language:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=ZXRn238mpb2Toln2pJtRTsfvYRT/s2maCYuQJwVBYIVmjgvW3bnnTLjJ6Zm2xOcG+fpIBV46+YhHcPOliERRbdt3j7scMFGDv+vBja/RV4hoJC7YIHyzoZtD/xfCSgOOc4HjzP87H3tciLYfgabDb+qxmcWgUPHoBDAsTG6SEIs= Received: by 10.36.222.13 with SMTP id u13mr1580954nzg; Fri, 15 Jul 2005 09:12:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.1.10? ([24.30.171.44]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id 16sm3361291nzo.2005.07.15.09.12.23; Fri, 15 Jul 2005 09:12:23 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <42D7E08D.7080704@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 09:13:01 -0700 From: Zac Medico User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050624) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] ldconfig breaks my system References: <1121430713.8121.9.camel@malory> In-Reply-To: <1121430713.8121.9.camel@malory> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 2f94ef49-c639-4456-a75d-2fe77320513b X-Archives-Hash: 3f81cc5d277dcf6298e6b3c2d6b77083 Alex Bennee wrote: > Hi, > > Applogies for the cross-post. I'm unsure if this is and amd64 specific > problem or a more general b0rkage. > > I've posted about my failing glibc emerges before: > > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/114627 > > I think I've narrowed it down to ldconfig running during the emerge. In > fact at the moment any time I run ldconfig it breaks the system so that > I cannot spawn any new shells (they segfault straight away). I can > restore my system by untaring a rescue glibc binary. > > Can anyone give me any hints on how to diagnose the problem with > ldconfig and why things stop working when its done? > > I'm currently building a parallel world on a second partition (in a > chrooted environment) to see if there are any differences between the > two setups (i.e a subtle breakage occured and was never picked up). > > -- > Alex, homepage: http://www.bennee.com/~alex/ > It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human > being. -- Benjamin Disraeli > I had a similar problem (actually with plain x86) a couple months ago. That was with glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1. Lately I've been using glibc-2.3.5 with no problems. What version do you have? Zac -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list