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Reputation: 631

Getting segmentation fault(core dumped) after installing glibc through conda

I am trying to install glibc through conda on CentOS - 6.5 using

conda install -c dan_blanchard glibc
It installs glibc-2.18. I am getting Getting segmentation fault(core dumped) after running the above command when I try to open the python in terminal.

I am working on a remote server with no admin privileges. On running echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH , I am getting
/share/opt/python/3.6.5/lib:/share/lsf/9.1/linux2.6-glibc2.3-x86_64/lib

I need to update Glibc for installing pytorch=1.3 from source . Is it possible to update glibc? If yes, then what I can do to make it right?
I checked the below answer also but couldn't apply to my use-case as it have root privileges.

After updating glibc: Segmentation fault (core dumped)

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1970

Answers (1)

omajid
omajid

Reputation: 15213

Never touch a distribution's included glibc library. Not unless you are the sort of expert that can debug and fix the issues that then happen.

glibc is the standard system C library. It's the library every single application uses. If there's any change in the what the API looks like, or a change in the implementation of the C standard library - any corner case, any change to run time performance - it can break any number of applications, if not your entire system. That's an extremely risky thing to do.

If you want a newer glibc, switch to a more recent distribution - probably a newer version of RHEL in your case.

Upvotes: 1

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