Latest glibc RHN update breaks RPM/GNOME?
Mo Cain
2.3.2-27.9.6, and they seem to have broken both RPM and GNOME. Here's
what happened:
- Downloaded and installed all 3 glibc packages through the RHN package
manager, all while logged into GNOME.
- After package install, I was unable to launch a new terminal, and PAN
quit working as well.
- Rebooted system, and when I tried to log into GNOME, I immediately get
logged out with the error "you were logged in less than 10
seconds..something may be wrong...".
- Jumped to single-user mode and tried to back out glibc upgrades by
installing the last version, 2.3.2-27.9. rpm complained with "rpmdb:
unable to join the environment". Couldn't do anything with RPM, including
'rpm --rebuilddb'.
- The only way to fix the RPM issue was to 'export
LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5'. After that, RPM ran fine...rebuilt the DB,
downgraded to last glibc, and now everything is back to normal. I don't
have to export the kernel change at all normally, and not after I reverted
to the last glibc.
But why? What's going with this glibc that requires a kernel model
change? If it helps, here are my install stats:
RedHat 9
2.4.21-Simon-rc6-ac1
rpm-4.2-0.69
gnome-2.2.x
sawfish-1.2-5
Thanks!
Mo'
Lenard
> I just updated the latest glibc packages from the RedHat Network,
> 2.3.2-27.9.6, and they seem to have broken both RPM and GNOME. Here's
> what happened:
<snip>
> But why?
Sounds like you got bit by the glibc updated bug!!
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=88456#c15
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Mo Cain
testing things like this. The comment below that one states that newer RPM
is dynamically linked...I would guess that was probably the problem since
RPM stopped working after the glibc install, and forcing the kernel mode
back to 2.2.5 fixed it. But that still just doesn't make sense, since this
was on RH9??? I'm probably caring too much about this...it works now, and
I'm happy without rev'ing glibc... :-)
Mo'
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Jarle Tufto
I updated via apt-get update; apt-get upgrade and ran into the same
problems. Kde was running fine but things like mozilla, xine, and
xmms started segfaulting. Luckily, downgrading (only possible by
doing LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5 rpm ....) resolved the problem.
Jarle
William Hooper
> 2.3.2-27.9.6, and they seem to have broken both RPM and GNOME. Here's
> what happened:
>
> change? If it helps, here are my install stats:
>
> RedHat 9
> 2.4.21-Simon-rc6-ac1
Check out the updated Errata.
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2003-325.html
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Mo Cain
their words "to be compatible with non-RedHat kernels". So atleast we
know...they didn't factor in those of us that actually need to run
something besides their norm... :-( I upgraded about an hour ago and
everything is peachy.
Mo'
PS: It does look like up2date is correctly matching the local arch with
the correct RPMs, grabbing glibc i686 and -common, -dev 1386.
On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 12:03:21 -0800, Mo Cain wrote:
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Duane Morin
> Looks like RedHat fixed this issue today, releasing a .7 set of RPMs. In
> their words "to be compatible with non-RedHat kernels". So atleast we
> know...they didn't factor in those of us that actually need to run
> something besides their norm... :-( I upgraded about an hour ago and
> everything is peachy.
>
I saw the .7 version (luckily my work machine is not hosed but my
laptop, for which I have a fresh kernel, is). But if all my rpm
related commands are throwing "unable to join environment" how to I
update????
Duane
Duane Morin
rpmdb: unable to join the environment
error: db4 error(11) from dbenv->open: Resource temporarily unavailable
error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - Resource temporarily unavailable (11)
error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm
warning: glibc-2.3.2-27.9.7.i686.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID db42a60e
rpmdb: unable to join the environment
error: db4 error(11) from dbenv->open: Resource temporarily unavailable
error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm
I understand that the join environment thing is related to the posix threads
problem, but is it all related? Once somebody enlightens me how to upgrade
these packages, will all of the above go away?
Duane
In article <554f29fd.0311...@posting.google.com>,
Duane Morin
> I saw the .7 version (luckily my work machine is not hosed but my
> laptop, for which I have a fresh kernel, is). But if all my rpm
> related commands are throwing "unable to join environment" how to I
> update????
I got the new glibc and glibc-common installed by doing
LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5.
This enabled me to run Gnome again, so I thought, "Cool, I'll use
Ximian's system update to get the other new packages (glibc-devel,
nscd). But
Ximian now reports that I only have two packages installed on my
machine, glibc and glibc-common. When I told it to verify
dependencies it added basesystem and some others.
Is there a way to tell Ximian to rebuild its database? I obviously
have all my software still installed.
Duane
Mo Cain
mode, ran 'export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5', then I was able to run RPM no
problem. Once that was fixed, I removed the .6 glibc updates, rebuilt the
RPM db, then updated to .7. Worked great since.
As for Ximian...I'm not that familiar, but if it uses the RPM database,
you can manually rebuild that with:
# rpmbuild --rebuilddb
You can also remove all your DB files (I think they're in
/var/lib/rpm/*__.db, or something very similar), then rebuild the DB and
see if that helps.
Mo'
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