OFFTOPIC: glibc 2.0.5 strangeness?

Egor Egorov (egor@fastware.kiev.ua)
Sat, 27 Sep 1997 20:14:16 +0000 (GMT)


Hi. I'm sorry for posting to not apropriate mailing list, but right now I
have no choice, and I really need a quick help. :)

I have one trouble: after installing glibc 2.0.5 (from redhat 4.8.1) and
kernel 2.0.31pre10 (well, it's a real pre9 kernel + pre9-pre10 patch), and
after updating most of the packages (pine, joe, X, .. - from rh 4.8.1 too)
I have some troubles.

Why some of my old binaries (compiled under libc5.4.34) now
requires libc.so.5 AND libc.so.6? ldd reports that. Certainly, they don't
work. Some of my old binaries requires, some not - why? How do I fix
this?

When I run pine, it sometimes says "another pine is accessing... trying.."
and prints itself pid. :) Why? How do I fix it?

When pine starts external editor (joe in my case), sometimes after joe's
exit, joe becames zombie. :(( pine hangs until ^C. When external editor =
mcedit, mcedit just hangs on start or on exit. Sometimes not. Why ? How do
I fix it?

All other binaries works perfectly. Performance raised.

And another really strange question :) is

Do I need to defragment filesystem if it was used for more that 1.5 years?
I mean my / filesystem of a home machine. It's slow now.

And as for .31p10 kernel - really cool. I'm psyched of it. Linus & co,
thank you!

Egor Egorov, lost soul.