RE: Error 127 in install of glibc 2.2.3

["Kate Ahrens" <kate dot ahrens at unisonfree dot net>]

Still no closer a working system...

> > > One question occurs to me: What did you do with the glibc 2.2.3
> > > installation that you put under /usr/local?  I suppose it ought
> > > to be deleted entirely in case it interferes with the new
> > > installation under /usr.
> >
> > I haven't done anything with it. What's the safest way to remove it?
>
> Hmm.  Not sure about that.  You can find a listing of the files
> installed by glibc 2.2.3 at
>
> ftp://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/pub/glibc-2.2.3/listing.txt
>
> I'd say the most important candidates for deletion are the files in
> lib and sbin (under /usr/local).  I'm not sure about the wisdom of the
> recommendation to install glibc under /usr/local at first -- seems to
> me there's too much potential for confusion and conflicts.  Some of
> the glibc components have paths "hard-wired" into them at compile
> time.  In fact it might help your system recovery if you were to make
> sure /usr/local is not in your path at boot time, and /usr/local/lib
> is not referenced in /etc/ld.so.conf (as a temporary measure).

I've deleted everything under /usr/local that was included in that listing.
I've then run ldconfig again. Still no init prompt. The /etc/ld.so.conf
doesn't have /usr/local/lib in it, but then, as I mentioned earlier, it is
six weeks old, which doesn't make much sense to me.

/usr/local isn't in root's $PATH, but I'm not sure that is what you mean.

Next step?

Nick