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

From: J.O. Aho (user_at_example.net)
Date: 06/07/04 

Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2004 16:55:30 +0200

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

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