[gentoo-user] Re: Update to glibc-2.4-r3 with gcc-3.4.6

[Remy Blank <remy.blank_asps@pobox.com>]

David Grant wrote:
> I did and I totally screwed up my system. I managed to fix it eventually
> by booting to a live CD and untaring the quickpkg I made into the /
> directory.

Yes, I saw your posts on bug 125868 [1].

> ... and secondly, don't
> do it until you get some responses back from others who did it succesfully.

Well, I did it anyway (had a bit of time on my hands). And surprise, I
had the exact same symptoms as the bug above, i.e. a relocation error
before unmerging the previous glibc-2.3.6-r4. But everything was still
working ok.

So I did *not* panic ;-) and just emerged glibc-2.4-r3 a second time (I
had made a binary package, so this was quite fast), and this time the
previous glibc was unmerged correctly. I suppose an emerge --prune would
also have worked. Your problem was most likely due to your having
unmerged glibc-2.4, which left you with a system without glibc.

So there does seem to be a bug, albeit not really a critical one, in the
merge process. But it can be fixed easily by unmerging the *old* glibc
version.

-- Remy

[1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=125868

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