Hello, Today my system automatically updated glibc from 2.12-rc2 to 2.12-rc3. Shortly afterwards I tried to start OpenOffice and it would not start. The error message:
Inconsistency detected by ld.so: dl-deps.c: 622: _dl_map_object_deps: Assertion `nlist > 1' failed! (The same problem is reported here: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-6744468.html) Apparently this is due to the glibc update. A quick fix (since I need OpenOffice) would be to simply downgrade back to glibc-2.12-r2, but emerge will not allow me to do it: * Sanity check to keep you from breaking your system: * Downgrading glibc is not supported and a sure way to destruction * ERROR: sys-libs/glibc-2.13-r2 failed (setup phase): * aborting to save your system I'm not going to break my system. How do I override this? Note: I am not using the compiled Gentoo version of OpenOffice. My installation is the binary version from the OO web site. Also, LibreOffice, which I installed (from binary) as a possible fix, gives the same error message. Frank Peters
