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 1NAUGG-000453-UQ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:02:50 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 32914E094A; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:02:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-bw0-f215.google.com (mail-bw0-f215.google.com [209.85.218.215]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E52F3E094A for ; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:02:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bwz7 with SMTP id 7so408284bwz.26 for ; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:02:17 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=isXesCHLbRPLBOhP2jFK9vpzFOBmHBitg+WD6wUDfmk=; b=w175Ynweswpb7pLnuyIUdrbwvgf9v1FZHAhKe/+lS8BlBGZYMVAZNbzOYdAs/szEUW vj8ajv0psuqOqYJ7VlE5qX5jJlKb/r0JuckEzcIxfcj47e479ck7DBPGjKcxaDSr65yf 7Kr+DDpeziIi7kNssJkM+suURfG4Y9wNkDb/M= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=Vu2mQpBLJp4Jnj2a2+4eAvmygWhq6qv7PcPZoMmeK2rTC7mA3CLpzZGndl7kU8Twtl 3uoAHWRGNQ6EImMrQy9oU+qbj1bOnJDJODRfF2J/V4DNAIA1sLnkxjJb1Bh5Ke0mvFvW NnQGR+i89dBDr8B6KkosuCBBKIiRyNgN0RhRY= Received: by 10.216.91.10 with SMTP id g10mr941298wef.217.1258488137218; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:02:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from energy.localnet (energy.heim10.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.197.94]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id i6sm13507713gve.17.2009.11.17.12.02.16 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:02:16 -0800 (PST) From: Volker Armin Hemmann To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Downgrade glibc-2.11 to 2.10 Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:02:13 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.3 (Linux/2.6.31.5r4; KDE/4.3.3; 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: <200911172102.13237.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> X-Archives-Salt: dd2169b8-b984-4114-8b69-bcb1605b9c21 X-Archives-Hash: 91f29bc53d7fd9e219689de2949f40d9 On Dienstag 17 November 2009, 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 :-) > try setting MALLOC_CHECK to 0