On Friday 25 January 2008 12:48:09 am Kevin J. Cummings wrote: > Kevin J. Cummings wrote: > >>> My list of files that match: > >>>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 128952 2007-10-18 04:49 /lib/ld-2.7.so > >>>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 2006-10-31 23:41 /lib/ld-linux.so.1 -> > >>>> ld-linux.so.1.9.5 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 25386 2000-02-03 09:14 > >>>> /lib/ld-linux.so.1.9.5 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 2007-11-09 19:36 > >>>> /lib/ld-linux.so.2 -> ld-2.7.so lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 > >>>> 2006-09-14 16:09 /lib/ld-lsb.so -> ld-linux.so.2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root > >>>> root 13 2007-11-13 18:41 /lib/ld-lsb.so.3 -> ld-linux.so.2 > >>>> -rwxr-xr-x 2 root root 99660 2000-02-03 09:14 /lib/ld.so > >>>> -rwxr-xr-x 2 root root 99660 2000-02-03 09:14 /lib/ld.so.1.9.5 > >> > >> This is mine: > >> > >> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 128952 2007-10-18 03:49 /lib/ld-2.7.so > >> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 2007-11-10 01:22 /lib/ld-linux.so.2 -> > >> ld-2.7.so lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 2007-11-10 02:23 > >> /lib/ld-lsb.so.3 -> ld-linux.so.2 > > > > Interesting. Looks like I'm still got some old RPMs installed. > > Yeup, some *very* old RPMs still installed! So old, they are a.out format! > > >>> I think that mkinitrd is at fault, not the kernel. > > OK, so not exactly, but mkinitrd needs a better checking methodology > than the hack it is using. (sigh) > > >> Wrong glibc libs installed ? > >> > >> What returns rpm -q glibc ? > > > > Hmmm, I wonder if its the old ld.so RPM? I'm off to try. > > Yeup, removing the old ld.so (and all of the other old RPMs that > depended on it) seem to have done it. It was a small challenge removing > an old csh and replacing it with tcsh, but I got it done. > > Installation of the mew kernel now happens without a hitch! > > Thanks folks for pointing out the obvious. B^) It made me look a > little bit closer at what is installed on my system. Yes, I've had to > do some upgrades "the hard way" over the years, at one point this system > was running RedHat 3.0.3..... The upgrade path (as I remember it) was: > > 3.0.3 -> 4.2 -> 5.1 -> 6.0 -> 6.2 -> 7.2 -> 7.3 -> 9 -> FC2 -> FC3 -> > FC 5 -> F8. (whew!) Think you got here a record :) I started linux with RedHat 5.1 ... > > A couple of them involved me installing RPMs by hand when anaconda > screwed up. That probably explains some of the obsolete RPMs still > installed. > best regards Teo Fonrouge
