Hi all,
I recently made a very silly mistake. On a SLES machine, I had multiple versions of glibc installed. I wanted to force the system to use the oldest installed (glibc-2.11), so I proceeded to uninstall the newest. Bad mistake, as we all know. I’m kicking myself in the foot right now. This is on a VM, so I don’t have access to boot the system from a liveCD to perform a recovery that way.
Is there anyway to switch to glibc-2.11?
Thanks in advance!
Hi claftchi,
this is on a VM, so I don’t have access to boot the system from a liveCD
I don’t see the point - we’re booting Xen DomUs from CD/DVD from time to time for various reasons and have done so with VMware, too.
On a SLES machine […]
Is there anyway to switch to glibc-2.11?
As the whole system depends on a specific version of glibc, I’d see problems to change just glibc. What SLES are you running? SLES11SP3 is running 2.11.3:
[QUOTE]jmozdzen@xxx01:~> cat /etc/SuSE-release
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 (x86_64)
VERSION = 11
PATCHLEVEL = 3
jmozdzen@xxx01:~> rpm -qi glibc
Name : glibc Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version : 2.11.3 Vendor: SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Nuernberg, Germany
Release : 17.54.1 Build Date: Fr 10 Mai 2013 12:38:06 CEST[/QUOTE]
SLES11SP1 is using glibc 2.11.1, SLES10SP2 is at 2.4.
Regards,
Jens