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Simba7
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 Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2008 2:57 pm Post subject: Should I switch to glibc-2.9? |
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I just seen it in the tree this morning. I finished compiling 4 boxes and was wondering if I should update.
Is there any improvements that would benefit me? Also, if I do, would it break any packages? |
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zyko
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| Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2008 7:56 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | Is there any improvements that would benefit me? |
Do you speak Gurumukhi (see changelog)?
Usually glibc just gets larger and slower with every release. |
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| Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2008 7:59 pm Post subject: |
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Since you can't downgrade it, and there's not really any new groundbreaking features per the ChangeLog, I would say no.
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devsk
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| Posted: Tue Dec 09, 2008 11:45 pm Post subject: |
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| zyko wrote: | | Usually glibc just gets larger and slower with every release. |
very true... |
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Simba7
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| Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2008 2:15 pm Post subject: |
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Well, it seems that glibc-2.9 breaks my Stage1 script... Crap..
I'm going to see if I can compile 2.8 then switch over to 2.9. If it's still broken, then I'm masking it.
| Code: | >>> No outdated packages were found on your system.
* Messages for package sys-libs/glibc-2.9_p20081201:
* Generating all locales; edit /etc/locale.gen to save time/space
* Regenerating GNU info directory index...
* Processed 12 info files.
* IMPORTANT: 1 config files in '/etc' need updating.
* See the CONFIGURATION FILES section of the emerge
* man page to learn how to update config files.
(chroot) slappy / # USE="-fortran" emerge =sys-devel/gcc-4.1.2
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 27, in ?
import portage
File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 98, in ?
from portage_data import ostype, lchown, userland, secpass, uid, wheelgid, \
File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_data.py", line 106, in ?
mystatus, myoutput = getstatusoutput("id -G portage")
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/commands.py", line 53, in getstatusoutput
pipe = os.popen('{ ' + cmd + '; } 2>&1', 'r')
OSError: [Errno 38] Function not implemented
(chroot) slappy / # cd /usr/portage/scripts
(chroot) slappy scripts # ./bootstrap.sh
Gentoo Linux; http://www.gentoo.org/
Copyright 1999-2008 Gentoo Foundation; Distributed under the GPLv2
Starting Bootstrap of base system ...
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
[[ (0/3) Locating packages ]]
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/portageq", line 461, in ?
main()
File "/usr/bin/portageq", line 431, in main
import portage
File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 98, in ?
from portage_data import ostype, lchown, userland, secpass, uid, wheelgid, \
File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_data.py", line 106, in ?
mystatus, myoutput = getstatusoutput("id -G portage")
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/commands.py", line 53, in getstatusoutput
pipe = os.popen('{ ' + cmd + '; } 2>&1', 'r')
OSError: [Errno 38] Function not implemented
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 1, in ?
File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 98, in ?
from portage_data import ostype, lchown, userland, secpass, uid, wheelgid, \
File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_data.py", line 106, in ?
mystatus, myoutput = getstatusoutput("id -G portage")
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/commands.py", line 53, in getstatusoutput
pipe = os.popen('{ ' + cmd + '; } 2>&1', 'r')
OSError: [Errno 38] Function not implemented
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/portageq", line 461, in ?
main()
File "/usr/bin/portageq", line 431, in main
import portage
File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 98, in ?
from portage_data import ostype, lchown, userland, secpass, uid, wheelgid, \
File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_data.py", line 106, in ?
mystatus, myoutput = getstatusoutput("id -G portage")
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/commands.py", line 53, in getstatusoutput
pipe = os.popen('{ ' + cmd + '; } 2>&1', 'r')
OSError: [Errno 38] Function not implemented
* Using baselayout : >=
* Using portage : portage
* Using os-headers : virtual/os-headers
* Using binutils : binutils
* Using gcc : gcc
* Using libc : virtual/libc
* Using texinfo : sys-apps/texinfo
* Using zlib : zlib
* Using ncurses : ncurses
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
[[ (1/3) Configuring environment ]]
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 1, in ?
File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 98, in ?
from portage_data import ostype, lchown, userland, secpass, uid, wheelgid, \
File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_data.py", line 106, in ?
mystatus, myoutput = getstatusoutput("id -G portage")
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/commands.py", line 53, in getstatusoutput
pipe = os.popen('{ ' + cmd + '; } 2>&1', 'r')
OSError: [Errno 38] Function not implemented
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
[[ (2/3) Updating portage ]]
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 27, in ?
import portage
File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 98, in ?
from portage_data import ostype, lchown, userland, secpass, uid, wheelgid, \
File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_data.py", line 106, in ?
mystatus, myoutput = getstatusoutput("id -G portage")
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/commands.py", line 53, in getstatusoutput
pipe = os.popen('{ ' + cmd + '; } 2>&1', 'r')
OSError: [Errno 38] Function not implemented |
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cyrillic
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| Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2008 2:55 pm Post subject: |
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I have sys-libs/glibc-2.9 working fine here, but I am running ~ARCH globally. I don't think it would be a good choice for people on stable Gentoo systems.
| emerge --info: | Portage 2.2_rc17 (default/linux/amd64/2008.0, gcc-4.3.2, glibc-2.9_p20081201-r0, 2.6.28-rc7 x86_64)
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System uname: Linux-2.6.28-rc7-x86_64-AMD_Athlon-tm-_64_X2_Dual_Core_Processor_6400+-with-gentoo-2.0.0
Timestamp of tree: Mon, 08 Dec 2008 16:45:01 +0000
distcc 3.1 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu [disabled]
app-shells/bash: 3.2_p48
dev-lang/python: 2.6-r5
dev-util/cmake: 2.6.2
sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.0
sys-apps/openrc: 0.3.0-r1
sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r3
sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63
sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2
sys-devel/binutils: 2.19
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4
sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6a
virtual/os-headers: 2.6.27-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 x86 ~amd64 ~x86"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon64-sse3 -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon64-sse3 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/root/distfiles"
FEATURES="distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed"
LINGUAS="en"
MAKEOPTS="-j8"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="3dnow 3dnowext X a52 aac acpi alsa amd64 bzip2 cairo cracklib cups curl cxx dbus dri dts dvd encode fbcon ffmpeg flac fortran gdbm gif glitz gpm hal ithreads jpeg lcms midi mmx mmxext mp2 mp3 mpeg multilib ncurses nls nptl nsplugin offensive ogg opengl openmp pam pcre pdf png ppds pulseaudio readline samba slang spell sse sse2 sse3 ssl svg threads tiff udev unicode usb vorbis xorg xscreensaver xulrunner xv xvid zeroconf zlib" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev" KERNEL="linux" LINGUAS="en" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="radeon radeonhd"
Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY |
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Simba7
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| Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2008 2:09 pm Post subject: |
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Well, compiling glibc-2.8 first, then 2.9 worked perfectly.
Just had to modify my script a little:
| Code: | emerge binutils
emerge =sys-libs/glibc-2.8_p20080602
USE="-fortran" emerge =sys-devel/gcc-4.1.2
cd /usr/portage/scripts
./bootstrap.sh # This updates glibc-2.8 to 2.9 along with gcc-4.1.2 to 4.3.2
emerge --oneshot --nodeps python # This updates Python to 2.5
/usr/sbin/python-updater
emerge --unmerge =dev-lang/python-2.4.4-r13 # Gets rid of the old Python
/usr/sbin/python-updater
emerge perl # Installs Perl with ALL of the right modules
emerge help2man # Required my a package somewhere in emerge system
emerge -e system |
I am using ' ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" ' on all of my boxes. The above compiles perfectly for a Stage1. |
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gringo
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| Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2008 2:36 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | I have sys-libs/glibc-2.9 working fine here, but I am running ~ARCH globally. |
yeah, i expected some breakage here and there but it works just fine so far. Running ~arch too.
cheers
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| Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2008 2:46 pm Post subject: |
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| Fine here also. Though really don't want to emerge -e world as i've just did it a week ago :) |
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alex.blackbit
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| Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2008 2:50 pm Post subject: |
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| no problems seen so far on my ~amd64 and ~x86 systems. |
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hunky
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| Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2008 8:59 pm Post subject: |
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this may be a bit off topic but I was having a problem which led me to this thread. I've been running some photo slide scanning software (proprietary) and when I updated to the latest version it fails to start with this error:
| Code: | ~/Opt/Vuescan85/VueScan $ ./vuescan
./vuescan: /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.2/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.9' not found (required by ./vuescan)
./vuescan: /lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.7' not found (required by ./vuescan)
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I'm running maybe half or more stable (have several packages keyworded), but I see I'm using glibc-2.6.1. And libstdc++-3.3 if that somehow is affecting the first line up there.
This was just a tarball that I unpacked and is supposedly ready to use without making. I've kept the older version so can use it if I can't resolve the new problem.
I see there is still a glibc-2.7-r2 ebuild as well as some 2.8 ebuilds in portage. Just no idea if I would break something upgrading - same with the libstdc++.
cheers, JD |
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Simba7
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| Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2008 9:17 pm Post subject: |
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| hunky wrote: | this may be a bit off topic but I was having a problem which led me to this thread. I've been running some photo slide scanning software (proprietary) and when I updated to the latest version it fails to start with this error:
| Code: | ~/Opt/Vuescan85/VueScan $ ./vuescan
./vuescan: /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.2/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.9' not found (required by ./vuescan)
./vuescan: /lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.7' not found (required by ./vuescan)
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I'm running maybe half or more stable (have several packages keyworded), but I see I'm using glibc-2.6.1. And libstdc++-3.3 if that somehow is affecting the first line up there.
This was just a tarball that I unpacked and is supposedly ready to use without making. I've kept the older version so can use it if I can't resolve the new problem.
I see there is still a glibc-2.7-r2 ebuild as well as some 2.8 ebuilds in portage. Just no idea if I would break something upgrading - same with the libstdc++.
cheers, JD |
Word of advice, if you're going ~ARCH on some packages, you might as well do ALL of them that way. I ended up doing that and don't really regret it. Haven't bumped into a problem yet.
You *MIGHT* have to recompile GCC, too. Actually, if you update glibc, you might as well do an "emerge -e world". Sorry. I could be wrong, though. |
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hunky
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| Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2008 10:05 pm Post subject: |
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well, I'm not totally opposed to going ~x86, and in fact am somewhat tempted. I generally like most of my apps to be keyworded, but don't care so much about the underlying system as I want that to be good and stable. I'm running kde-crazy overlay now and the pro-audio overlay so am not adverse to mucking around. If one were to switch to ~ARCH from stable, I wonder if there should be some packages masked out or do you just accept them all? I suppose this is too far off topic and will scan the forums a bit about the subject - but maybe someone has a resource to point me towards.
cheers, jd |
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| Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2008 5:28 am Post subject: |
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| hunky wrote: | this may be a bit off topic but I was having a problem which led me to this thread. I've been running some photo slide scanning software (proprietary) and when I updated to the latest version it fails to start with this error:
| Code: | ~/Opt/Vuescan85/VueScan $ ./vuescan
./vuescan: /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.2/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.9' not found (required by ./vuescan)
./vuescan: /lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.7' not found (required by ./vuescan)
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I'm running maybe half or more stable (have several packages keyworded), but I see I'm using glibc-2.6.1. And libstdc++-3.3 if that somehow is affecting the first line up there.
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If I am reading that output correctly, vuescan was linked with glibc 2.7 and a different version of g++ than the one that your system is selecting by default. You will need to obtain a version compiled with an older glibc, or you will need to upgrade your glibc to at least 2.7. I do not know offhand what version of g++ ships GLIBCXX_3.4.9, but you will need to find and install that version as well. |
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| Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2008 1:28 pm Post subject: |
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Upgrading to glibc-2.9 broke xauth for me, meaning ssh X11 forwarding no longer worked. After downgrading from glibc-2.9_p20081201 back to glibc-2.8_p20080602-r1, X11 forwarding returned (see this thread and this bug report).
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Sash
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| Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2008 5:36 pm Post subject: |
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My experience from glibc-2.9: do NOT install it.
I tried it on 4 machines, had to downgrade them all to 2.8 (patching ebuild, masking and remerging glibc).
On 2 gentoo hardened machines, pthread_create didn't work anymore, which caused a lot of apps to crash/misbehave.
On 2 others several apps crashed in strncasestr functions (one of the changes from 2.8 to 2.9)
I tried deifferent compilers, all the same.
My conclusion: mask it in /etc/portage/package.mask to prevent accidental installs. |
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loki_val
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| Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2008 5:48 pm Post subject: |
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| Do not touch glibc-2.9 unless you like pain. |
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StringCheesian
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| Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2008 9:53 pm Post subject: |
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glibc 2.9 has been painless so far on my home desktop with KDE 4.2 svn on ~x86.
Should I still downgrade?
What were the 2 apps that crashed in strncasestr, Sash? |
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Sash
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| Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2008 10:29 pm Post subject: |
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@StringCheesian:
It was mc (midnight commander), segfault directly at start if run as root (as normal user it worked), but pressing F3/F4 (the internal viewer/editor), nothing happended
the other one was an internal commandline app.
I didn't investigate much, I just downgraded and this fixed both apps without recompiling.
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appelgebak
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| Posted: Sun Jan 04, 2009 11:48 am Post subject: Anyyone tried 2.9_p20081201-r1?? |
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| Sash wrote: | @StringCheesian:
It was mc (midnight commander), segfault directly at start if run as root (as normal user it worked), but pressing F3/F4 (the internal viewer/editor), nothing happended
the other one was an internal commandline app.
I didn't investigate much, I just downgraded and this fixed both apps without recompiling. |
Hi, same problem with mc here, run in chaos just before xmas.
Downgrading killed my system, so i had to recover from backup.
Perhaps this probs are gone with the "-r1". Anyone tried this??
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