From: Nagatoro <nagatoro@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Downgrade glibc-2.11 to 2.10
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:45:50 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200911171945.50778.nagatoro@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200911171806.45373.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
On Tuesday 17 November 2009 17.06.45 Alan McKinnon wrote:
> Yes, I have read this in
> /var/portage/sys-libs/glibc/files/eblits/pkg_setup.eblit
> and I understand the risks.
>
> if has_version '>'${CATEGORY}/${PF} ; then
> eerror "Sanity check to keep you from breaking your system:"
> eerror " Downgrading glibc is not supported and a sure way to
> destruction" die "aborting to save your system"
> fi
>
> I want to do it anyway.
>
> A multitude of apps that used to run just fine now give "free(): invalid
> pointer" errors since I upgraded to glibc-2.11
>
> A simple downgrade doesn't work - too many apps will not start including
> bash. Has anyone done this or knows of a howto? I'm happy to rebuild a few
> critical apps statically if that's what it takes. I'm not happy chasing
> down half the system to do it :-)
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=293527
Fixed in upstream so should be fix in Gentoo soon.
/Naga
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-17 18:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-17 16:06 [gentoo-user] Downgrade glibc-2.11 to 2.10 Alan McKinnon
2009-11-17 16:57 ` daid kahl
2009-11-17 18:45 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-11-17 19:25 ` daid kahl
2009-11-17 23:09 ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2009-11-18 7:23 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-11-18 8:38 ` daid kahl
2009-11-18 10:01 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2009-11-17 18:45 ` Nagatoro [this message]
2009-11-17 19:35 ` [gentoo-user] " Mike Edenfield
2009-11-17 20:02 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2009-11-19 14:52 ` [gentoo-user] " Thorsten Kampe
2009-11-19 15:03 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-11-19 15:27 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2009-11-19 15:32 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-11-19 15:37 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2009-11-19 15:40 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-11-19 15:45 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
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