Broken Linux Swarm: sendmsg()

[lsrjz]

Hi,

If it's not broken DON'T fix it!!

I had SWARM nicely installed on my Linux 1.2.13 box but, for the
sake of an online timer of all things (!!) broke it by installing
libc-5.0.9 

CAUTIONARY NOTE: To assist your analysis I have to admit to an
embarrassing typographic error as ROOT.[Aside: I typed 'ld <directory>
instead
of ls < directory> and, tiredness is my excuse, when seeing an a.out
executed it 'a.out -v'. Much disk crunching ensued. I'm including this
tale both to warn tired sys-ops of the proximity of <s> and <d> on the
QWERTY keyboard and to admit that my broken SWARM may not be as simple
as a problematic libc.

To continue. My previously compiled heatbugs works O.K.
If, however, I recompile the code I get a 'Floating Exception' error.

#0  0xf553f in __objc_init_install_dtable (receiver=0x10e6c4, op=0x10ea48)
    at sendmsg.c:210
#1  0x3fd20 in initModules () at Program.m:82
#2  0x401c2 in _obj_initModule (module=0x10630c) at Program.m:174
#3  0xbb93 in initSwarm (argc=1, argv=0xbffff990) at simtools.m:27
#4  0x1ecf in main (argc=1, argv=0xbffff990) at main.m:19

If I try 'list' I get

sendmsg.c:205: No such file or directory.

After searching the archive I upgraded libc-5.0.9 to libc-5.2.18 but,
after ldconfig of course, get the same error. NB. using -lieee didn't
help either.

Then, to cap it all, I recompiled SWARM with lib-5.2.18 and, although I had
no e
rror
there, when I recompile heatbugs I get:

/user/usr/local/new_swarm/swarm/src/collections/String.m:57: undefined
reference
 to `__assert_fail'

When I find / -name sendmsg.c I get nothing and, checking the sendmsg
man page, find that sendmsg is not implemented above Linux 0.99.11.

I am close to that horrible state of thinking that a complete system
reinstall is required. Although it would give me the chance of changing
from a.out to ELF I really haven't the time.

Any suggestions as to how to recover would be most sincerely appreciated.

All the best.
Steve.

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 Steve Emsley (address@hidden) +44 (0)1598 753648
         Ecosystems Analysis & Management Group
 University of Warwick,  COVENTRY CV4 7AL,  United Kingdom.