objc-load error: TLS

[Jonathan Hepburn]

Now I am very, VERY, annoyed.

Having spent ten minutes writing a carefully detailed email about an
error that was causing a total and utter failure to run any GNUStep
application (I use rather a lot, so this was a very annoying problem), I
tried something silly and drastic and it WORKED.

So:

If anyone is using fairly recent NVidia graphics drivers (4*** or 5***)
combined with a fairly recent (for e.g. RH9 or Debian Sid/Testing)
libc6/glibc and gets the following error: 'objc-load:libGL.so.1 cannot
handle TLS data'

The solution is to delete the /usr/lib/tls directory entirely. All it
contains is NVidia libraries that aren't necessary (I would check this
before doing any deletion: maybe move to tls.bk or something, or just
delete the libGL* links and files) and break when combined with this
particular libc6.

I hope this helps someone else.

Cheers,
J