I did a very very stupid thing.
On a Slack 11 box I entered sources for slack 12 and run slapt-get --upgrade. Now what happened is that almost all software was upgraded except glibc. Lovely. Because nothing works now. mv, gzip etc etc. all require glibc 2.4 which I've forgotten to install before I ran the upgrade.
What is there left for me to do? (Reinstall is out of the question.)

you can boot to your Slackware partition in single mode and then upgrade your glibc
or
upgrade to slackware 12.0

i'm not sure booting into single will help

you can always boot off of a livecd (eg slax) to fix it

Yes. Well. Unaccessible computer. So any Live or Install CDs are off.
Although it did give me the idea, maybe not the safest thing.
Allow Samba for user root on /, over VPN, and then mount over at my computer and install from here. This far it's going good but it is kinda slow.

Hi,

I have a similiar problem. I need to upgrade slackware 11 glibc from 2.3.x for something at least 2.4.x. Is there a way to achieve this without upgrading the whole system?

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Nope, anything else that relies on 2.3.x will break, which is a lot of things. The most recommended way would be to go into single user mode, update the glibc-solibs package first. Then the pkgtools and then sed. Then update all other packages you have installed.

What version of glibc are you grabbing from, the 12.x repository? Actually the 12.0 jumps to glibc-2.5.x.

Dear Friends,

I am new to Xen implementation.

Please help me for this issue.

First i will explain my setup, we have an remote server (Amazon) with Xen and we are uploading our images to that server and working on it.. for that we are paying.

I have uploaded the slackware12.1 image to the Xen server. It is working fine but while check the cat /var/log/syslog* getting below warning.

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◦ WARNING: Currently emulating unsupported memory accesses **
◦ in /lib/tls glibc libraries. The emulation is **
◦ slow. To ensure full performance you should **
◦ install a 'xen-friendly' (nosegneg) version of **
◦ the library, or disable tls support by executing **
◦ the following as root: **
◦ mv /lib/tls /lib/tls.disabled **
◦ Offending process: init (pid=1) **
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I have installed sysvinit, mdadm packages

but still getting same warning.

Please help me to resolve this issue..

Thanks in advance

RAMESH

Your question has ZERO relevance to the long-dead thread you are re-opening. Create your own new thread please. You are not going to get answers like this.

Eric

He already posted the same to another irrelevant thread...