Re: Need Help Recovering System From GLIBC Upgrade!!!

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From: Josh McAdams
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2004 19:25

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J.O. Aho wrote:
> Josh McAdams wrote:
> 
>> Help please!
>>
>> I just tried to update glibc on my Red Hat 7.2 system.  The version 
>> that I installed was 2.3.2.  However, toward the end of 'make 
>> install', I got a relocation error.  Now, nothing works.
>>
>> There is now a libc.so.6 in /usr/lib/ and in /lib/i686/.  Obviously, I 
>> made the wrong chice by installing my version into /usr/lib.
>>
>> Any help would be very much appreciated.
>>
>> Just to show you what I'm seeing, here is the output of the 'ls' command:
> 
> 
> 
> What I can think of is that you boot from install CD1 in rescue mode, 
> then copy the glibc libraries from the CD to your system, reboot and 
> then install the glibc RPMs (rpm -Uvh --force glibc*.i386.rpm).
> 
> 
> When I did run RH7.3 I did use the Redhat9 glibc (rebuild the 
> sourceRPM), this lessens the risk for problems, but todays glibc uses 
> nptl, which can cause other slight problems, but you can modify the 
> glibc.spec a little bit so it don't compile the nptl and don't try to 
> create the RPMs.
> 
>  //Aho

Thanks for the help.  I couldn't get that to work with the RH7.2 CD, but 
finally downloaded the RH9 CD and now I'm up and running again.

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