Bug 180773

Summary:	2007 gentoo-x86-quickinstall fails w/ broken glibc
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Frank Bennett <bennett78>
Component:	[OLD] Unspecified	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED TEST-REQUEST
Severity:	major
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-quickinstall.xml
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Frank Bennett 2007-06-03 18:15:21 UTC

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-quickinstall.xml
following is corrupt:
wget http://gentoo.osuosl.org/snapshots/portage-latest.tar.bz2
used:
portage-20070601.tar.bz2

livecd env.d # cat /etc/env.d/05gcc
PATH="/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.1.1"
ROOTPATH="/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.1.1"
MANPATH="/usr/share/gcc-data/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.1/man"
INFOPATH="/usr/share/gcc-data/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.1/info"
LDPATH="/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.1"
GCC_SPECS=""


livecd / # env-update && source /etc/profile
>>> Regenerating /etc/ld.so.cache...
dircolors: relocation error: /lib/tls/libc.so.6: symbol _dl_starting_up, version GLIBC_PRIVATE not defined in file ld-linux.so.2 with link time reference
grep: /lib/tls/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.3.4' not found (required by grep)
grep: /lib/tls/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.3.4' not found (required by grep)
grep: /lib/tls/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.3.4' not found (required by grep)
grep: /lib/tls/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.3.4' not found (required by grep)
dircolors: relocation error: /lib/tls/libc.so.6: symbol _dl_starting_up, version GLIBC_PRIVATE not defined in file ld-linux.so.2 with link time reference
grep: /lib/tls/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.3.4' not found (required by grep)
grep: /lib/tls/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.3.4' not found (required by grep)
id: relocation error: /lib/tls/libc.so.6: symbol _dl_starting_up, version GLIBC_PRIVATE not defined in file ld-linux.so.2 with link time reference
bash: [: =: unary operator expected
/sbin/consoletype: relocation error: /lib/tls/libc.so.6: symbol _dl_starting_up, version GLIBC_PRIVATE not defined in file ld-linux.so.2 with link time reference
cut: relocation error: /lib/tls/libc.so.6: symbol _dl_starting_up, version GLIBC_PRIVATE not defined in file ld-linux.so.2 with link time reference
cut: relocation error: /lib/tls/libc.so.6: symbol _dl_starting_up, version GLIBC_PRIVATE not defined in file ld-linux.so.2 with link time reference

livecd / # ll
ls: relocation error: /lib/tls/libc.so.6: symbol _dl_starting_up, version GLIBC_PRIVATE not defined in file ld-linux.so.2 with link time reference



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.see description
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
can't run env-update inorder to
chroot to 
run emerge

Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-06-03 18:38:05 UTC

Uhm; there's no way a portage snapshot could kill your glibc. Wipe everything, start from scratch and make sure the stage you've downloaded has a *correct* md5sum (i.e., is not corrupt) before unpacking.