Comment 8 for bug 81125

Paul Smith wrote:

>
> Second, I've looked and /usr/lib/libc.so.6 is a symlink to (the real)
> /lib/libc.so.6, so this "extra version" is really completely innocuous.
> It seems that the test could be a bit smarter and compare the contents
> or something to be sure there really are multiple versions, and not just
> multiple paths to the same version.

This is exactly the problem. Who or what did create these symlinks?

> Third, I do not have any beta nvidia drivers installed:

ok we are trying to understand who did create those symlinks

>
> On the other hand, I rebooted and after that X wouldn't start; I had to
> drop back to the open "nv" drivers in order to get it going again. At
> first it complained about a missing file
> /usr/lib/xserver/SecurityPolicy, then when I copied /usr/share/doc
> /xserver-xorg-core/SecurityPolicy to that location it just stopped (no
> error messages in the log file, but the driver wouldn't start). I get
> the nvidia splash screen, then it exits. I've dropped back to the "nv"
> driver and it works (although of course I don't have any acceleration).

You shouldn't copy stuff around at random. SecurityPolicy is something that you
can't just copy around without making it fits to your system. Anyway it is
outside the scope of this bug.

>
> One last note: since I tried to upgrade libc my VPN package, which is
> Juniper's Network Connect, does not work anymore; it gives me an error
> about "unable to load library libncui.so" (which is a Network Connect
> shared lib). I am not bothering to look at this until after my libc is
> upgraded successfully.

Is this software available for download? It might be the reason why there are
those symlinks around and I'd like to give it a check.

Fabio