Hello Maurice!   
      
   08 Feb 2018 14:47, Maurice Kinal wrote to Benny Pedersen:   
      
    MK> From my observations glibc-2.27 is the greater culprit.   
      
   gentoo devs agre with you   
      
    MK> My current    
    MK> 'stable' system is booting a linux-4.15.1 kernel but with glibc-2.26    
    MK> as shown below;   
      
   i have only 2.25, i dont think kernel changes userland problems, so here i   
   just stay safe on kernel versions for a while, i have to make tarballs soon to   
   get new harddisk installed, not fun   
      
    MK> ----- ':read !uname -a' starts   
    MK> Linux mikey 4.15.1 #1 SMP Sun Feb 4 11:04:33 UTC 2018 x86_64 Intel(R)    
    MK> Atom(TM) CPU C2758 @ 2.40GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux   
    MK> ----- ':read !uname -a' ends   
      
   should i say wish it was mine ? :)   
      
    MK> ----- ':read !/lib/libc.so.6' starts   
    MK> GNU C Library (GNU libc) stable release version 2.26, by Roland    
    MK> Compiled by GNU CC version 7.3.0.   
    MK> Available extensions:   
    MK>         crypt add-on version 2.1 by Michael Glad and others   
    MK>         GNU Libidn by Simon Josefsson   
    MK>         Native POSIX Threads Library by Ulrich Drepper et al   
    MK>         BIND-8.2.3-T5B   
      
   bind8 still in use ?   
      
    MK> libc ABIs: UNIQUE IFUNC   
      
   dont know much here   
      
    MK> ----- ':read !/lib/libc.so.6' ends   
      
    MK> Both of the above play nicely with libelf-0.170.so which is not the    
    MK> case with glibc-2.27 and linux-4.15.1.  Also I noticed some linker    
    MK> issues with libjpeg since we last chatted.  Bottomline is that I am    
    MK> obviously not ready for a glibc-2.27 'upgrade'.   
      
   do you like to try elfutils ?, that make libelf unneded on gentoo here   
      
      
    Regards Benny   
      
   ... there can only be one way of life, and it works :)   
      
   --- Msged/LNX 6.2.0 (Linux/4.9.76-gentoo-r1 (i686))   
    * Origin: I will always keep a PC running CPM 3.0 (2:230/0)