On Tue, 2002-08-06 at 13:19, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: > I'm dealing with an upgrade gone bad, actually, and I don't exactly > know *how* it went bad. > > I'm upgrading to glibc 2.2.4-27 (including the usual -common and > -devel; I don't use -profile). In fact I have it running now. rpm > --verify reports all three are installed fine. You did install with "rpm -U glibc-<blah> glibc-devel-<blah> glibc-common-<blah>", right? rpm really should have prevented you from installing them one at a time, but I remember having all sorts of trouble once when I upgraded the library, but forgot to update -devel (but that was years ago). > However, if I try to reinstall glibc using "rpm -U --replacepkgs > glibc-2.2.4-27.i386.rpm" I get "% post scriptlet failed", and if I try > -common I get "% pre scriptlet failed". When the first, at least, > happens, *everything* stops working (well, presumably every program > that depends on the glibc dynamic library; in fact a couple of > staticly linked programs I found do still run). Perhaps you'd like to try going to another console (ALT-F2 or whatever) and running "while true; do /sbin/ldconfig; done" and then go back to the main console and try running the rpm installation. I think you could also try using "rpm --noscripts ..." Of course, maybe the scripts are just broken and things are all hunky-dory despite the error messages. -- _ _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ ___ _ _ __ She did WHAT with WHO for / \/ \(_)| ' // ._\ / - \(_)/ ./| ' /(__ HOW MANY Mini-Oreos? \_||_/|_||_|_\\___/ \_-_/|_|\__\|_|_\ __) [ Mike Hicks | http://umn.edu/~hick0088/ | mailto:hick0088 at tc.umn.edu ] -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20020806/cdcf3eab/attachment.pgp