prelink on sarge - busted machine

[Paul Jakma <paul@jakma.org>]

Hi,

I installed prelink on sarge and unfortunately ended up with a mostly 
hosed machine where basic utils such as ls, tar, etc, would segfault.

When I tried to undo the damage, with prelink -un, it did not fix 
things. Eg, ls would still segfault, even though neither it, nor any 
of the libraries it is linked to had .gnu_prelink_undo sections 
(hence - shouldnt be prelinked).

I had to unpack libc6.1 deb on another machine to an NFS dir, 
LD_LIBRARY_PATH to its libs and untar the libc data file over 
existing ones.

Does prelink have known problems on alpha?

regards,
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