version woes

[eddy at eddy dot casa-z dot org]

Hello all,

  I hope I'm not asking an already addressed question, but I couldn't find
symptoms of my problem anywhere in the archives.

  My problem is this: I will be slogged into my computer, happily twiddling
away in bash, when all of a sudden, every time I try to run a command, I
get something like this:

beauty:/www/programs/resacast$ cp async.h circular.h
cp: /usr/local/lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.1' not found (required by cp)
cp: /usr/local/lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.0' not found (required by cp)
cp: /lib/ld-linux.so.2: version `GL' not found (required by /usr/local/lib/libc.so.6)
cp: /lib/ld-linux.so.2: version `GLIB' not found (required by /usr/local/lib/libc.so.6)
cp: /lib/ld-linux.so.2: version `GLIBC_' not found (required by /usr/local/lib/libc.so.6)


Then, when I try it again, I get this:

beauty:/www/programs/resacast$ cp async.h circular.h
-bash: error in loading shared libraries: -bash: symbol execve, version GLIBC_2.0 not defined in file libc.so.6 with link time reference

  This happens only occaisionally, and it doesn't matter which commands I try.
All of the bash internal commands (like cd and jobs) still work, and if I type
enough of them, after I get one or both of these messages, sometimes they will
go away. Otherwise, after a few commands, bash will die, and I get logged out.

  The computer this happens on is completely slackware, running libc 2.1.2. I
would greatly appreciate any help on this matter, as it tends to get really
irritating.

Thanks a lot,
Eddy