x relocation error

Pasketti · Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2004 5:19 am Post subject:

I'm not sure that'll do anything.

Mine is a relatively new install, less than 3 weeks old. It's always had 2.6 and nptl on it, and has never had the nptlonly use flag set.

emerge -pv glibc
doesn't list an nptlonly flag in the list, either.

I also only have a /lib directory, and not a /lib/tls.

I tried going back to the 2.6.8.1 headers, but it still doesn't work. It's like there's some change that was made when upgrading to -r1 that needs to get unmade. I cleared out /var/tmp/portage, recompiled the kernel, and re-merged glibc, but nothing worked.

I'm not going to do the prelink thing because I don't think that will fix the root problem.

I think I'll sleep on it.

John-Boy · Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2004 5:30 am Post subject: Re: A possible solution?

stevyn · n00b Joined: 26 Aug 2004 Posts: 70 Location: USA

I had the same problem with X not loading. I ran "prelink -afmR" and it works now. Not sure what happened or why it works, but it seems to be fine now.

kmarasco · Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2004 7:01 am Post subject:

NightMonkey · Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2004 7:10 am Post subject: Same error here...

Strange. Just converted my desktop over to nptl yesterday, no problems. But my laptop, well, I get this error.

* I don't use prelink, didn't emerge linux26-headers since October (2.6.8.1-r1), and didn't emerge Xorg-x11 (though I'm trying that now)
* Process:
- Turned on nptl USE flag
- emerge glibc fltk nvidia-glx && sync && sleep2 && reboot (desktop, works great)
- emerge glibc fltk && sync && sleep 2 && reboot (laptop, X dies, all other services work, no errors in messages or dmesg)

I noticed that the xorg-x11 build gives a "Previous xorg install detected". Does that mean it might not overwrite all library files (like the opengl files) when it is rebuilt? Should I emerge -C xorg-x11 and then emerge xorg-x11 to be sure that everything is made fresh? Also, my laptop uses the neomagic chipset, so hence no need for nvidia stuff as on the desktop. Thanks!

j79zlr · Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2004 8:48 am Post subject:

I am having the same problems as everyone else, but my net access has also died. I can ping within my local network, but any web address fails. I believe this is bad since I wont be able to emerge sync when this gets fixed, just wondering if anyone else has this problem?

btw, I reemeged glibc after installing the new 2.6.8.1-r1 headers, but didn't have any problems. Then I reemerged with the userlocales flag and this began.

nein · Guru Joined: 14 Nov 2003 Posts: 346 Location: Spain

Anyone tried what the last post at https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=73326 suggests ? I haven't tried because that version of gcc-config is still not known by my rsync server altough I have seen it exists in the changelog at packages.gentoo.org http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/sys-devel/gcc-config/ChangeLog.

Incabulos · Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2004 9:22 am Post subject: Odd behaviour..

Had the same problem as many of the other people here - emerged the new headers ( linux26-headers-2.6.8.1-r1 ), rebuilt glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1 with nptl, and then Xorg would no longer start with that listed relocation error. A downgrade back to older headers linux26-headers-2.6.8.1 and another rebuild of glibc did not correct the problem, and at this time a rebuild of xorg-x11-6.8.0-r3 also failed with the compile errors listed earlier in the thread.

The fix listed a couple of posts up ( prelink -afmR ) worked, but with issues -

The nptl flags for the glibc build also seem a bit inconsistent. In addition to using +nptl in make.conf ( this is listed in use.desc ) , another flag also is listed in use.local.desc, 'nptlonly', for glibc. Yet this flag is not shown as an available use-flag when running a 'emerge -pv glibc', perhaps it has sneakily been added to both rebuilds of the glibc ( before and after the linux26-headers was downgraded back to 2.6.8.1 ) whereas it was not included before now? I'm unsure whether it has been present and active in my glibc builds or not..

HTH.

jarealist · Apprentice Joined: 07 Oct 2002 Posts: 228

The latest from:

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=73326

to fix this:

"please emerge gcc-config-1.3.7-r5, run gcc-config for your target toolchain, unset GCC_SPECS in your env, and then source /etc/profile

that should do it"

I spent this morning restoring from backup and I'm not mentally ready enough to try this. Anybody else willing to give it a go and report back here if it works for them?

nein · Guru Joined: 14 Nov 2003 Posts: 346 Location: Spain

I finally installed gcc-config version 1.3.7-5 and did what was suggested in bugs.gentoo but it made no difference.

Heurisko · n00b Joined: 19 Feb 2004 Posts: 16 Location: North Texas

blotto · Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2004 12:45 pm Post subject:

Got the same prob on 2 of my 3 machines both were updated to new headers and glibc recompiled

If I do an

Ribs · Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2004 1:08 pm Post subject:

Well, I'm pissed off with Gentoo today. After upgrading glib to the latest stable for AMD64, portage totally fucks up and leaves me with a broken system which segfaulted on every program. Now I've fixed that (with some help from a friend with quickpkg), I see the error in this thread.

Looking at the bug which has been filied, it's been marked as 'resolved', after only two days. That's pathetic, and to be honest, simply not good enough. The prelink 'soultion' is a kludge at best, and certinally isn't a proper solution to the problem.

This bug has now crippled my system, and I have to waste a lot of disk space on prelinking, which I really don't like using... wonderfull

-Ribs.

jarealist · Apprentice Joined: 07 Oct 2002 Posts: 228

Glad I didn't try it again with the proposed "fix". This is such a nasty bug maybe the 2.6.8.1-r1 headers should be hard masked again until it's worked out. Haven't seen anything like this for quite a while.

serge · Apprentice Joined: 05 Jan 2003 Posts: 177

It does not come from linux26-headers-2.6.8.1 or 2.6.8.1-r1. I have installed a new system from scratch using linux-headers [linux-2.4] and i have the same problem.

Serge

krueger · n00b Joined: 11 Dec 2002 Posts: 5 Location: Sweden

nein · Guru Joined: 14 Nov 2003 Posts: 346 Location: Spain

I was about to downgrade glibc but noticed that each version is installed in a different slot. I guess I will have to unmerge (after emerging the older version) the actual version I have installed.
Could somebody tell me if there is something to care about or the correct sequence for doing the glibc downgrade without completely breaking my system ?

youngl · n00b Joined: 05 Dec 2004 Posts: 1

hybrid · Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2004 5:23 pm Post subject:

some persons using the latest unstable glibc (which have the nptl_only use flag) are running fine with it

Pasketti · Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2004 5:23 pm Post subject:

element-82 · n00b Joined: 23 Nov 2004 Posts: 6

Hi,
n00b to gentoo here, how do I get around the "masked" warnings when trying to downgrade glibc?

cca · n00b Joined: 07 Jun 2004 Posts: 38 Location: Greece

It is really weird what is happening. Last night I was able to make Xorg compile using the latest unstable glibc with the +nptlonly flag. But when I attempted to do the same on another PC I have gentoo installed into, I failed miserably. I 'm trying to downgrade to the glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r2 now since it seems to work for most people.

hjnenc · Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2004 5:54 pm Post subject:

I have found a workaround that brought back my X. Don't know yet if it breaks other things (use at your own risk). Its mentioned here: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=73326#c12

nein · Guru Joined: 14 Nov 2003 Posts: 346 Location: Spain

Emerging the previous stable glibc also worked for me. In fact it is not necessary to unmerge the installed version.

Well, almost 2 days without X. The good side: did not work this weekend

jkt · Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2004 6:30 pm Post subject: