Matthew Jones wrote:
> Can someone please give the recipe for undoing nightly ymy updates?
> 
> It looks like many things were updated last night and now many things
> don't work.  Firefox in particular is rendered unusable.  This seems to
> be associated with plugins that don't know about the updated libc, since
> it is crashing with messages like:
> 
> *** glibc detected *** /usr/bin/acroread: free(): invalid pointer: 0x09797ac0 ***
> ======= Backtrace: =========
> /lib/libc.so.6[0xf6b1a5a5]
> /lib/libc.so.6(cfree+0x59)[0xf6b1a9e9]
> /usr/lib/libX11.so.6(XFree+0x1d)[0x5a8f7d]
> /usr/bin/acroread[0x8604952]
> /usr/bin/acroread[0x8608607]
> /usr/bin/acroread[0x82d315f]
> /usr/bin/acroread[0x84ffbaf]
> /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0[0x77f451]
> /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0(g_main_context_dispatch+0x182)[0x7811a2]
> ..
> 
> Furthermore, there seems to be some bad interaction with my graphics driver,
> causing some web pages to make Xorg to consume 100% of the CPU for seconds
> at a time every time I try to scroll one line on a relatively simple web page.
> 
> Is there a recipe for updating all the adobe plugins that depend on an earlier
> version of libc?  Is there a recipe for backing out the updates to get back
> to where things more or less were useable?
> 
> I'm running SL5.3.
> 
> Thanks,
> Matthew.
> 

Hi Matthew,
You didn't say whether you were regularly updating your adobe plugins.
Have you updated your adobe plugins?

I have survived the update fine, but I also get my plugin's updated as well.

Adobe Reader 9.4 (AdobeReader_enu-9.4-1)
Shockwave Flash 10.1 r85  (flash-plugin-10.1.85.3)

Troy
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