Re: glibc 2.1 broke a couple of things.

[Joel Klecker <jk@espy.org>]

At 20:55 -0500 1999-03-12, Seth M. Landsman wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 12, 1999 at 07:29:56PM -0600, Ossama Othman wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Second, I get the following error when running JavaICQ:
> >
> > /usr/lib/jdk1.1/bin/../bin/i686/green_threads/java: error in loading
> > shared libraries:
> > /usr/lib/jdk1.1/bin/../lib/i686/green_threads/libjava.so: undefined
> > symbol: _dl_symbol_value
>
> 	Yup.  I confirm that the entire JDK stuff is quite broken.  This
> becomes a problem being that I have an incoming deadline for java code.
>
> 	I'm trying to downgrade to libc6 from slink.  I'm getting the
> following errors :
>
> [seth@mycroft] sudo dpkg -i libc6_2.0.7.19981211-6.deb
> ~
> (Reading database ... 42398 files and directories currently installed.)
> Preparing to replace libc6 2.1.1-0pre1 (using libc6_2.0.7.19981211-6.deb)
> ...
> Unpacking replacement libc6 ...
> sh: error in loading shared libraries
> /lib/libncurses.so.4: undefined symbol: __register_frame_info
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> libc6_2.0.7.19981211-6.deb

You should be thankful that it didn't let you downgrade or it would 
have hosed your system. Downgrade ncurses and libreadline and 
sysvinit and ldso first or you will break your system.
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Joel Klecker (aka Espy)                     <URL:http://web.espy.org/>
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