more on hardware clock

[Steve Holmes]

Tell me, just what the hell is libsafe and what is it good for?  Based
on Chuck's experience, I don't think I will be doin' libsafe any time soon:).

On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 03:59:57PM -0400, Charles Hallenbeck wrote:
> Hi Ari and all,
> 
> I really blew it yesterday when I hastily deleted the residual
> libsafe pieces that the Slackware "removepkg" did not get rid of.
> It turns out that the damn thing had modified the linux dynamic
> loader to invoke libsafe every time it was executed, and without
> the libsafe component I threw away, the dynamic loader was
> broken. Try doing ANYTHING on a Linux system with a broken
> dynamic loader!!!
> 
> Of course I made it worse in my panic and anger, and ended up
> having to reinstall my root partition with a new base system and
> then scrambling to get my /usr and /home partitions back on
> board.
> 
> I guess it pays to be more cautious, but I was really on a roll
> with putting new stuff on this box and added libsafe hastily.
> 
> I appreciate everybody's help with this.
> 
> Chuck
> 
> 
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