[tex-live] TL installer xz.x86_64 expects GLIB_C 2.6

[George N. White III]

2010/11/22 Zdenek Wagner <zdenek.wagner at gmail.com>:
> 2010/11/22 George N. White III <gnwiii at gmail.com>:
>> $  uname -a
>> Linux [..] 2.6.18-194.26.1.el5 #1 SMP Fri Oct 29 14:21:16 EDT 2010
>> x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>> $ tlmgr update --all
>> tlmgr: package repository http://mirror.its.dal.ca/ctan/systems/texlive/tlnet
>> tlmgr: saving backups to /usr/local/texlive/2010/tlpkg/backups
>> [1/42] auto-remove: acromake
>> /usr/local/texlive/2010/tlpkg/installer/xz/xz.x86_64-linux:
>> /lib64/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.6' not found (required by
>> /usr/local/texlive/2010/tlpkg/installer/xz/xz.x86_64-linux)
>>
> Where exactly do you see the problem practically? I use CentOS on
> x86_64 which is a RHEL based distro, glibc is 2.5.34 but tlmgr updates
> TL without any problem, formats were rebuilt without any error. I have
> only TL2010 pretest on my i386 notebook.

The problem is that tlmgr can't create the backups when xz.x86_64-linux
fails to run.  Do you have backups enabled "tlmgr config .."?   I don't know
if there are any other programs that need GLIBC_2.6 since I'm using i386
binaries.

>> $ strings xzdec.x86_64-linux | grep GLIB
>> GLIBC_2.2.5
>> $ strings xz.x86_64-linux | grep GLIB
>> GLIBC_2.2.5
>> GLIBC_2.6            <-------------- RHEL has GLIBC_2.5
>> GLIBC_2.3
>>
>> I use the i386-linux binaries on this system, so it is the installer
>> that is invoking the x86_64linux version of xz.  A
>> workaround should be to replace the x86_64 version with the i386 versiion:
>>
>> $ strings xz.i386-linux | grep GLIB
>> GLIBC_2.2
>> GLIBC_2.0
>> GLIBC_2.1
>> GLIBC_2.3
>>
>> Since I just did an update, it isn't obvious how to test the backups
>> without waiting for an update to appear.
>>
>> --
>> George N. White III <aa056 at chebucto.ns.ca>
>> Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia
>>
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> Zdeněk Wagner
> http://hroch486.icpf.cas.cz/wagner/
> http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz
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George N. White III <aa056 at chebucto.ns.ca>
Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia