On Wednesday 27 Apr 2016 17:52:07 Dale wrote: > I seem to recall glibc being one of those packages that you can't > downgrade. Sort of chicken to upgrade, just in case the problem gets > even worse.
You could back your system partitions up first, to have a system to revert to if necessary. I've had to do that quite a lot while getting this new box installed. It helps that I have several partitions, thus: /dev/nvme0n1p5 / ext4 relatime 1 1 /dev/nvme0n1p2 /boot vfat noauto 1 2 /dev/nvme0n1p6 /var ext4 relatime 1 2 /dev/nvme0n1p7 /home ext4 relatime 1 2 /dev/nvme0n1p8 /home/prh/boinc ext4 relatime 1 3 /dev/nvme0n1p9 /home/prh/common ext4 relatime 1 3 /dev/nvme0n1p10 /usr/local ext4 relatime 1 2 /dev/nvme0n1p11 /usr/portage ext4 relatime 1 2 /dev/nvme0n1p12 /usr/portage/packages ext4 relatime 1 3 /dev/nvme0n1p13 /usr/portage/distfiles ext4 relatime 1 3 /dev/nvme0n1p17 /home/prh/.VirtualBox ext4 relatime 1 3 /dev/nvme0n1p3 none swap sw 0 0 tmpfs /var/tmp/portage tmpfs noatime,uid=portage,gid=portage,mode=0775 0 0 tmpfs /tmp tmpfs noatime,nosuid,nodev,noexec,mode=1777 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 shm /dev/shm tmpfs nodev,nosuid 0 0 Not sure about those last two - are they still needed nowadays? -- Rgds Peter
