At 08:34 AM 6/11/98 -0500, you wrote:
>[Sorry if this is a "repeat," unless my settings have changed
>surreptitiously, I should have received a copy of this the first time it
>posted but didn't, so I'm assuming it was lost.]
>
>Red Hat 5.0 2.0.31
>Installed and compiled 2.1.85 without any problems.
>
>I upgraded ncurses with:
>rpm -Uvh ncurses-4.1-12.i386.rpm ncurses-devel-4.1-12.i386.rpm
>
>The RPM install broke on terminfo. I mv'd the terminfo link to terminfo-bak
>and forced RPM to install again. The good news is, this fixed my terminfo
>problem. The bad news is, my libc.so.5 has gone missing. I can't get on the
>box right now, but the error message is something to the effect that
>libc.so.5 doesn't exist.
>
>Did ncurses blast my libc5 into oblivion, or am I making this more
>difficult than it really is? I suspect I'm experiencing yet more of the
>libc6/glibc2 wierdness, and I've looked at the glibc2 FAQ but found nothing
>of any use.
>
>Is there a definitive and comprehensive HOWTO or FAQ online that will
>instruct this poor newbie on how to straighten this libc thing out and keep
>it that way?
Looks like the major symlink in /lib was missing. I created /lib/libc.so.5
symlinked to /usr/i486-linuxlibc5/lib/libc.so.5.4.38 and everything seems
to be working pretty well. Midnight Commander now has the annoying habit of
announcing that it "couldn't change to ." when started and I'm getting IPV4
checksum errors on ppp0, but I think these are probably unrelated.
Hopefully this information will be of some use to someone else who
encounters this problem in the future.
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David Wollmann
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