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[blockley at environ.wa.gov.au]

On 17 Dec, russ wrote:
> Beau Kuiper wrote:
>> I told you only the stupid tried to manually upgrade libc :) You may need to
>> run to the install disk/s!
> 
> I've tried reinstalling, after I do it still comes up with the same
> problem. I hope you don't mean a format and complete installation.
> 
>  
>> Sorry, I couldn't resist this one. Have fun
> 
> Kick a man when he's down! :)

Ouch! What did you do to your libs.  I have done a manual upgrade of
libc5 to glibc2.  It was a lot of work, and  when I consider how long it
takes to do a fresh install it just wasn't worth the effort.  You
should be able to do a reinstall without reformatting any or all of your
partitions - it depends on how messed your system is and maybe what
distribution you are using.

I keep /, /usr, and /home on separate partitions in case an upgrade does
not go well. In that case I at least get to keep /home and maybe
repartition the others.

I tried to upgrade SUSE 5.2 to SUSE 6.0 but managed to reformat all my 
partitions - which wasn't what I intended but at least I'd backed up
/home and various config files in /etc onto CD.

Good luck

Adrian 
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