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 1NAT4M-0001Mi-CH for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:46:27 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F2F24E07A2; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:45:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from dx.nyblom.org (unknown [212.247.117.70]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB977E07A2 for ; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:45:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dx.nyblom.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFA5C609620 for ; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:45:50 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at dx.nyblom.org Received: from dx.nyblom.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (dx.nyblom.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id Zx0Ofyzc96wG for ; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:45:50 +0100 (CET) Received: from explosive.localnet (explosive.nyblom.org [192.168.0.137]) by dx.nyblom.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 816061D3296 for ; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:45:50 +0100 (CET) From: Nagatoro 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 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.2 (Linux/2.6.31.5-0.1-desktop; KDE/4.3.1; x86_64; ; ) References: <200911171806.45373.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200911171806.45373.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200911171945.50778.nagatoro@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 8facbd1e-2c80-4d9a-a509-ff22dc07da44 X-Archives-Hash: b9282b0bc111a65f43f7e12aa7a10c45 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