[16541] in bugtraq
mea culpa (mea culprit?)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bob Manson)
Mon Sep 4 20:29:25 2000
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Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2000 20:02:47 -0400
Reply-To: Bob Manson <bob@ECF.UTORONTO.CA>
From: Bob Manson <bob@ECF.UTORONTO.CA>
X-To: Signal 11 <signal11@mediaone.net>
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On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Signal 11 wrote:
>
> "Redhat expressly disclaims any liability, dot... dot... dot..." :\
>
Of course they do. I had two concerns when I posted. First, I wanted to
let others know that there might be a problem. Well, Ok, first I thought
"Man, I'm dead". Then I thought of the rest of you.
Anyway, I just finished looking at things on the machine and it really was
my fault. An earlier rpm install had hit libc-2.1.3.so so I temporarily
grabbed another one and, to test it, named it libc-2.1.3.so.old and made a
sym link from libc.so.6 to it. And then forgot about it. The machine was
back up and I continued to work. When I did the glibc update, I guess the
install got confused by stupidly linked file.
I'm sorry for any anxious moments I may have caused the people at RedHat,
and thank everyone again (from all over the world!) who replied with
suggestions. Doesn't anyone sleep anymore?
bob
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