I tried doing as you did: upgrading glibc via MandrakeUpdate (not Cooker) and
trying to run su. I have no problems. It looks like the cause of your su
troubles could be something else. Just don't ask me what that is, I have no
clue :-(
On Mon, 22 Jan 2001 08:12, John Agapito wrote:
> No, I am always pathologically careful to stay away from cooker and
> anything too bleeding edge. Nevertheless, unless there are better ideas
> out there, I'll try installing version 2.1.3 of glibc as you suggest.
>
> cheers,
>
> john
>
> Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
> > Did you upgrade glibc via Cooker (the "Development" option in Mandrake
> > Update)? The Cooker glibc (version 2.2.x) is incompatible with earlier
> > versions, including that of 7.2 (version 2.1.3). Your solutions are to
> > either fully upgrade to Cooker (not recommended) or to downgrade glibc to
> > the version used in 7.2.
> >
> > On Sat, 20 Jan 2001 13:38, John Agapito wrote:
> > > This is not about girl trouble.
> > >
> > > For some reason, I find today I cannot use su to access root only
> > > progs, etc, such as Drakconf. In the console, if I type su, I get
> > >
> > > error in loading shared libraries: libxalflaunch.so.0:
> > > cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
> > >
> > > From what I can see just nosing around, this lib file is a symbolic
> > > link to libxalflaunch.so.0.0.1, both in /usr/lib. Both files are
> > > actually there, so why the message?
> > >
> > > If I open libxalflaunch.so.0.0.1, I find simply:
> > >
> > > ELF
> > >
> > > Anyone seen this before? I've been careful to only add new libs, etc
> > > that come down the mandrake update pipe. The only thing that sticks in
> > > my mind that I updated recently was glibc. Could this be it?
> > >
> > > I'm running 7.2, using Gnome. Thanks folks,
> > >
> > > TIA,
> > >
> > > John
> >
> > --
> > Sridhar Dhanapalan.
> > Your mouse has moved. Windows must be rebooted to acknowledge
> > this change.
--
Sridhar Dhanapalan.
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