Re: SCO 5.0.6 with oss646b has old /usr/lib/libc.so.1

From: Brian K. White (brian_at_aljex.com)
Date: 09/28/05


Date: 28 Sep 2005 03:51:09 -0400


----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve M. Fabac, Jr." <smfabac@att.net>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sco.misc
To: <distro@jpr.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2005 2:32 AM
Subject: SCO 5.0.6 with oss646b has old /usr/lib/libc.so.1

>I have a client with 5.0.6 Enterprise running on ML380GS
> server. I upgraded them from 5.0.5 to 5.0.6 in July of 2002
> and the system has been running the users Informix application
> since then.
>
> In January 2005, the user moved to a new Informix application that
> was installed by the application developer. at the same
> time the application developer installed Gcc 2.94 and oss646b.
>
> I was called today to install mpack downloaded from
> http://www.aljex.com/bkw/sco/
>
>> mpack
>> Source and binary distributions of mpack compiled for SCO Open Server.
>> Built on Open Server 5.0.7. Runs on 5.0.4+ if you install oss646 or
>> osr507mp
>>
>> Note: Anyone who has a use for mpack may be interested in Lightmail.
>> All of the things you wish mpack could do, and about 30 you won't think
>> of until you need them, Lightmail does.
>>
>> install:
>>
>> curl http://www.aljex.com/bkw/sco/mpack.tar.bz2 |bzcat |tar xvf -
>>
>>
>> mpack-1.6.tar.bz2 - Sep 12 15:24:15 2003
>> mpack.tar.bz2 - executables & man pages (installed paths)
>
> mpack failed to run with the error message:
> dynamic linker: mpack: relocation error: symbol not found: sys_errlist
>
> This also happened with rsync downloaded from the same site.
>
>
> The user has a hot backup server off site that was not upgraded with
> the new Informix application. On that server, oss646b is not installed.
>
> I installed oss646b on the off site server and copied mpack and rsync
> to it and both ran without an error message.
>
> I ran sum -r on /usr/lib/libsocket.so.2, libc.so.1 and libresolv.so.1
> on the backup server before and after installing oss646b:
>
> diff /tmp/unx.before.sum /tmp/unx.after.sum
> 1,3c1.3
> < 10528 295 libsocket.so.2
> < 09178 727 libc.so.1
> < 23062 288 libresolv.so.1
> ----
>> 10528 295 libsocket.so.2
>> 09178 727 libc.so.1
>> 23062 288 libresolv.so.1
>
> Running sum -r on the live server with oss646b listed in custom
> results in:
> 10528 295 libsocket.so.2
> 09178 727 libc.so.1
> 23062 288 libresolv.so.1
>
> My question is how can you install oss646b and still have the
> pre 646b versions of libsocket.so.2, libc.so.1, and libresolv.so.1
> in /usr/lib? and how do I correct this mess?
>
> The live server has the SCO 5.0.6 development system installed
> (some time in 2003 pre oss646b) as well as Gcc 2.95, Openssh 3.4p1,
> Zlib, and prngd, oss642 crontab supp, and oss648a processor update.

Don't know why the oss646b update might have failed, if it did.
But as an aside you probably want to install oss646c not b.

Brian K. White -- brian@aljex.com -- http://www.aljex.com/bkw/
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