Re: [LAU] New libc6 problems (SOLVED)

On Thursday 26 April 2007, Marc-Olivier Barre wrote:
> On 4/26/07, Fons Adriaensen <fons@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 03:23:58PM +0300, David Baron wrote:
> > > A while back, jackd audio users were recommended to place a
> > > LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.19 in their /etc/profile or environment setup.
> >
> > This was necessary because early NPTL implementations were completely
> > broken. I can't remember the last time I needed this, it must be at
> > least two or three years. It shouldn't be necessary with any modern
> > system.
>
> The problem was still here a year ago, but now I don't think it's
> relevant anymore. Distros, package maintainers, and the linux-audio
> community should advertise to remove LD_ASSUME_KERNEL from there
> profile (which I'm not sure was the right place to be set since it's
> system wide).
>
Those of us who had it in profile had a way out.
System wide would have been catastrophic. Well, there is that knoppix CD.
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Received on Thu Apr 26 20:15:05 2007