Topic: C libraries upgrade

[Brandon Friedman]

I am running taper 6.9b: I recieve an error message and when I checked the taper website , this is the diagnosis:

>There is a problem with some C libraries, eg. version 5.4.38, and 5.4.44. Try >upgrading to libc6 or downgrading to an old libc5 library (5.4.33 works).

Do I need to upgrade these files?

Regards
BF

[Darrell May]

Brandon Friedman wrote:
>
> I am running taper 6.9b: I recieve an error message and when
> I checked the taper website , this is the diagnosis:
>
> >There is a problem with some C libraries, eg. version
> 5.4.38, and 5.4.44. Try >upgrading to libc6 or downgrading to
> an old libc5 library (5.4.33 works).
>
> Do I need to upgrade these files?
>
> Regards
> BF

Hi Brandon.  I've been using Taper 6.9b-3 (assume you mean the same) with a Seagate STT220000A 20GB ide tape drive and do not receive any errors.  When/where do you receive the errors and what errors occur?

Regards,

Darrell

[Brandon Friedman]

Darrell wrote,

'Hi Brandon.  I've been using Taper 6.9b-3 (assume you mean the same) with a Seagate STT220000A 20GB ide tape drive and do not receive any errors.  When/where do you receive the errors and what errors occur?'

We are using a HP 4/8 SCSI tape drive - I run an unattended backup everyday, but what happens is that on certain directories find an error in the log file:
'w:write child segmentation fault', I check the taper website and it says that I need to upgrade or downgrade the c libraries?

Regards
BF

[Darrell May]

Brandon Friedman wrote:
>
> We are using a HP 4/8 SCSI tape drive - I run an unattended
> backup everyday, but what happens is that on certain
> directories find an error in the log file:
> 'w:write child segmentation fault', I check the taper website
> and it says that I need to upgrade or downgrade the c
> libraries?
>
> Regards
> BF

I checked the Taper web site and see that it mentions problems with versions 5.4.38 and 5.4.44 of the c libraries.  I personally don't know how to tell the version of c loaded as the filename is simply libc.so.5.  [Maybe someone can help with explaining how to determine this]  It mentions to try version 6.0 which is found in glibc-2*.rpm available from www.rpmfind.net.  I'm currently testing e-smith 4.1B2 which includes the latest libraries and Taper works fine however previously I had a plain e-smith 4.0 install and Taper worked ok there to.

Hope this helps,

Darrell

[Charlie Brady]

Brandon Friedman wrote:
 
> I am running taper 6.9b: I recieve an error message and when
> I checked the taper website , this is the diagnosis:
>
> >There is a problem with some C libraries, eg. version
> 5.4.38, and 5.4.44. Try >upgrading to libc6 or downgrading to
> an old libc5 library (5.4.33 works).
>
> Do I need to upgrade these files?

Brandon, if you are using the RPMs from my contrib area then taper is built to use glibc6, so you don't need any libc5.

Regards

Charlie