upgrade problem

[Andreas Jaeger]

>>>>> Frederic Lepied writes:

 > I have an upgrade problem from glibc 2.1.3 to glibc 2.1.97. When the
 > glibc is updated on the system, a lot of applications stop resolving
 > names and looking up user info. For example openssh server doesn't
 > work anymore without a restart.

You didn't reboot at all?  I always reboot afterwards to try to do the
update in single user mode - or with as less applications running as
possible.

Andreas

 > After instrumenting the glibc 2.1.3, I found that dynamic loading of
 > the libnss was failing.  It seems to come from the new libnss* 2.1.97
 > libs that need symbols from GLIBC 2.2 which are not present because
 > the running programs are still linked with the 2.1.3 glibc.

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