Hi, Bernhard, Thanks! That did it. Hidong Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote: > > On Fri, 4 Jun 1999, Hidong Kim wrote: > > Hi, > > > I just upgraded my glibc from the stock Mandrake 5.3 > > glibc-2.0.7-29 to glibc-2.1.1-6. > > Updating from glibc 2.0.x to 2.1.x is always a big problem because there > were a lot of internal changes. > They're not 100% binary compatible. If you need glibc 2.1.x for something, > you should get a distribution that is built for it, like Mandrake 6.0. > > > I did the upgrade by downloading > > glibc-2.1.1-6.i386.rpm from a mirror > > Bad choice, by the way - glibc-2.1.1-6.i386.rpm is Red Hat's idea of a > glibc RPM - it's actually a CVS snapshot of the glibc 2.1.1 development > tree that's dated somewhere between the pre1 and the pre2 release. > > > My question is, how do I revert back to glibc-2.0.7-29? Is it just a > > simple matter of 'rpm -ivh --replacefiles glibc-2.0.7-29.i386.rpm'? > > My choice would be 'rpm -Uvh --force glibc-2.0.7-29.i386.rpm', because > this would also delete glibc 2.1.1 specific files. > Don't forget to do the same to any other related packages (glibc-devel > etc). > > LLaP > bero
