Hi, > >Yeah, throw away libc. It's old, buggy and gives shit. Only Netscape > >4.x needs it as far as I know. > > "rpm -q --whatrequires libc" showed no one wanting to play with it on this > system anyways. So...rpm -e libc ...and now it's gone. > > >Also make sure /lib/libc.so.6 points to libc-2.1.3.so. Looking at the > >error, glib (yes, without the c) is compiled on a newer system. > > Yes - > # ls -l libc.so.6 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Nov 23 2000 libc.so.6 -> libc-2.1.3.so > > so that's fine. From the rpm -l listing of files included in glib, I get: > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Nov 26 2000 /usr/lib/libglib-1.2.so.0 -> > libglib > -1.2.so.0.0.8 > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 172425 Oct 27 2000 /usr/lib/libglib-1.2.so.0.0.8 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 Nov 26 2000 /usr/lib/libgmodule-1.2.so.0 > -> libg module-1.2.so.0.0.8 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12430 Oct 27 2000 /usr/lib/libgmodule-1.2.so.0.0.8 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 Nov 26 2000 /usr/lib/libgthread-1.2.so.0 > -> libg > thread-1.2.so.0.0.8 > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 11520 Oct 27 2000 /usr/lib/libgthread-1.2.so.0.0.8 > > and pam's libs - > > # ls -l /lib/libpam* > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Feb 19 2001 libpam.so -> libpam.so.0.72 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Nov 23 2000 libpam.so.0 -> libpam.so.0.72 > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 33718 Nov 30 2000 libpam.so.0.72 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6540 Nov 30 2000 libpam_misc.a > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Feb 19 2001 libpam_misc.so -> > libpam_misc.so.0.72 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Nov 23 2000 libpam_misc.so.0 -> > libpam_misc.so.0.72 > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 10303 Nov 30 2000 libpam_misc.so.0.72 > > So is the fact that libpam_misc.so.0.72 was compiled 19Feb2001, later than > the libg libraries, somehow the source of the problem? Again, these are all > from straight redhat RPM distributions - I didn't compile/build any myself. You're sure you applied all the updates ?? Both RH 6.2 and RH7.1 have had glibc updates, glib updates and pam updates. Looking at the error you have, the linker is missing some symbol, probably in a not updates lib. Igmar
