Re: glibc 2.1 broke a couple of things.

["Seth M. Landsman" <seth@job.cs.brandeis.edu>]

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
dpkg: warning - old post-removal script returned error exit status 127
dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ...
dpkg: error processing libc6_2.0.7.19981211-6.deb (--install):
 there is no script in the new version of the package - giving up
sh: error in loading shared libraries
/lib/libncurses.so.4: undefined symbol: __register_frame_info
dpkg: error while cleaning up:
 subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 127
Errors were encountered while processing:
 libc6_2.0.7.19981211-6.deb


-Seth
-- 
"It is by will alone I set my mind in motion"