intentional unintentional bork (or something) ...

By basd on Mar 18, 2010 | In linux, opensuse

So ... after my upgrade to OpenSUSE 11.2, I suddenly realized I no longer had sopcast and qsopcast. So, I reinstalled.

...

Well, there were issues. Something rolled back glibc to an earlier version. Probably qsopcast, because it is probably not smart to use an 11.0 repository on an OpenSUSE 11.2 install. But watcha' gonna do? Nothing current and I didn't want to compile from source because I don't have the sources installed yet and well, you know.

The thing was that Firefox quit working. I removed my various additions and repositories, reinstalled Firefox -- Firefox still did not work. I reinstalled glibc. Still did not work. reinstalled some other dependencies, still did not work.

I kept getting an unknown variable "g_malloc_n".

So, I reinstalled my entire install, via YAST "update all packages".

STILL NOT FIXED. Yikes!

Finally I found some obscure comment about a new glibc version. So, I went to the version list (THANK YOU YAST!) and discovered that although Factory is using the .23 version, I had been rolled back to .22 (which doesn't handle the g_malloc_n request. Since I had installed/selected an earlier version, even "updating all packages" did not put me back to the Factory version. But, via YAST, I rolled forward and Firefox works again.

Now back to solving the sopcast problem.

Maybe.