Fwd: Re: [R] error starting R 1.2.2 in Redhat 7.0 (GLIB 2.2 not defined...)

Tony Long tdlong at uci.edu
Wed Mar 21 00:47:08 CET 2001


>Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 15:45:52 -0800
>To: Prof Brian D Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk>
>From: Tony Long <tdlong at uci.edu>
>Subject: Re: [R] error starting R 1.2.2 in Redhat 7.0  (GLIB 2.2 not 
>defined...)
>Cc: r-help at stat.math.ethz.c
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>Brian:
>
>	Thanks!!  I figured out how to run "up2date"  (that is, 
>determined the existence of this amazing program) -- and life is 
>good again.  Clearly, RedHat 7.0 was not complete!  Although I agree 
>the Redhat people should have released a better (more complete) 
>product, I am still somewhat impressed at how much easier it is to 
>do things than apprx. 1 year ago......
>
>	If you have RedHat you can change to root user and type the 
>command "up2date" this results in "all" bug fixed/upgrades being 
>made to your system!!
>
>>On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Tony Long wrote:
>>
>>>  All:
>>>
>>>	I just upgraded my system to Redhat 7.0, and installed the
>>>  RPM for R 1.2.2.  I intall R 1.2.2 using the rpm -U xxxx command.
>>>  When R is invoked from some directories it starts and runs fine, from
>>>  other directories I get a strange message at startup (and R exits
>>>  without starting).  Thus far the directory with the problem tends to
>>>  contain ".data" files from the previous version of R.  When R exits
>>>  without starting I get the following message
>>>
>>>  /usr/lib/R/bin/R.bin:  error while loading shared libraries:
>>>  /usr/lib/R/bin/R.bin:  symbol __sysconf,
>>>  version GLIBC_2.2 not defined ion file libc.so.6 with link time reference
>>>
>>>	Of course, I do not really understand what this message
>>>  implies I do.  Any advice would be appreciated.  Thanks.  Tony
>>>
>>>  PS  (I still haven't carried out the "backward upgrade" of the gcc
>>>  compiler)....later today
>>
>>You need to update RedHat 7.0, that is install all the recommended updates
>>from the RedHat site.  That is *not* the same as downgrading the compiler
>>to the one that is actually released.
>>
>>Oh, and do blame Redhat for selling you a broken system.
>>
>>--
>>Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
>>Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
>>University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
>>1 South Parks Road,                     +44 1865 272860 (secr)
>>Oxford OX1 3TG, UK                Fax:  +44 1865 272595

-- 
Tony Long
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
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