On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 06:21:32PM +0100, Tony van der Hoff enlightened us:
> I recently updated my linux distro from Mandrake 10.1 to 10.2. Rather
> foolishly, I decided to upgrade Amanda from 2.4.4 to 2.4.5 at the same time.
> [I know - only change one thing at a time :( ]
> 
> Anyway, the result was that Amanda would no longer work, with the dreaded
> "selfcheck request timed out". Finally, after much pulling out of hair, I
> tracked down the cause to amandad not starting, because of a dependancy on
> libintl.so.2, while the new distro only provides libintl.so.3. As a quick
> fix, I symlinked .2 to .3, and got Amanda working.
> 
> Question: why this dependance on a rather ancient (2003) library? Will it
> hurt to stick with the symlink, or should I obtain a .2 library?

How did you install amanda? If it was a pre-built RPM, then chances are that
the build machine had libintl.so.2 on it. This is a good argument for
building your own amanda either from source or via SRPMs.

Matt

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Matt Hyclak
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