* Gerald Marewo (gerald@aardvark.uz.ac.zw) [020415 07:10]:
well, this is a follow up to my request with some more detail on the kind of error message i sometimes get:
/bin/bash: error while loading shared libraries: /bin/bash: symbol 4, version GLIBC_2.0 not defined in file libc.so.6 with time reference.
Just a guess but it sounds like maybe you upgraded from a previous version (an old one judging from the lib) but didn't update bash. Another possibility is that you're trying to run bash1 (an old version supplied for compatibility reasons) but don't have the compat.rpm package installed? What do bash --version ldd /bin/bash say? For 7.2 it should look like bash --version GNU bash, version 2.05.0(1)-release (i386-suse-linux) Copyright 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc. ldd /bin/bash libreadline.so.4 => /lib/libreadline.so.4 (0x40022000) libhistory.so.4 => /lib/libhistory.so.4 (0x4004a000) libncurses.so.5 => /lib/libncurses.so.5 (0x40052000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x4009c000) libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x400a0000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000) -- -ckm