RHEL3 missing library

[Michael Scully]

Dag:

	This is as "pure" of a RHEL3 installation as they come.  The only
things installed on the box that don't come from RedHat are java rpms from
Sun (which usually stick to the /usr/java directories), some commercial,
script-based software for backup and recovery, Webmin, and an accounting
application that relies on the JRE.  Everything else is just packages from
RHEL3, maintained from up2date.  It was installed about 2 & 1/2 years ago.

	RH Engineering thinks there is something broken from the libgcc
installation.  I have to go back into the support queue to see what the next
step is.

	I was hoping to wait for RHEL5 to be shipped before I did a
bare-metal install on them, but I might find it cleaner to put on RHEL4 now.
I'm not sure.  They are 400 miles away from me, with no in-house technical
staff.

	So I can't easily remove the updated packages by overwriting them
with their prior tape backup, but I assume the various configuration files
will be.  I'm wondering if I can get them back to a state of grace prior to
the havoc.  Suggestions?

Scully


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The fact that on a RHEL3 he sees the GCC_4.2.0 requireÃment probably means
that he has been mixing packages build for RHEL4 (or another distribution
with gcc 4) on his RHEL3.

This is not something that happens on a normal system if you stick to what
Red Hat provides.

Kind regards,
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[all I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power]