Hi,

I have an old slackware system running 10.2, this needs to be upgraded to the latest version, I decided to upgrade through every version as I assume a lot may have changed.

Installing 11.0 worked fine.

However when trying to upgrade to 12.0 when I do

upgradepkg glibc-solibs-2.5-i486-4.tgz it fails and I get lots of these errors, which also happen when you try and run any other command and then the system wont boot.

relocation error: /lib/tls/libc.so.6: symbol dl_out_of_memory version GLIBC_PRIVATE not defined in file ld-linux.so.2 with link time reference

I imaged the system before upgrading so I can return it back to how it was before. I have read all the upgrade instructions for 12.0 and made sure I was running a 2.6 kernel.

any ideas? Due to the large amount of installed software and configurtation I would really prefer not to install from scratch.

thanks!

You have to anyway. Slackware Linux is not backwards compatible with older releases, e. g. stuff that requires KDE 3 in 10.2 will not work anymore with 14.1.

Its a headless server running IMAP/Web and other services, X is not installed. Surely I should be able upgrade ok?

thanks

you can try moving/removing all the .la files
i doubt it would fix thou

the .la files are there to help debug and link, but are not needed for it to work
its a text file so you can check what they do/say
(maybe its defined there then sed can help, but i doubt it)


otherwise, its complaining about a symbol being missing or defined different then expected
dl_out_of_memory probably means "dynamic loader out of memory" (does not mean its out of memory, its a symbol (what will be pointer to a function))


glibc has changed some since 2.5 so..

Since /lib/tls/ was eliminated in Slackware 12.0, you might try booting an install CD, mounting /, and getting rid of that directory to get it out of the LD_LIBRARY_PATH. Then try reinstalling the glibc package for 12.0.

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