FW: [EmperorLinux-os-RedHat] do not use : GLIBC update packages ( from Red Hat Network)

[Condon Thomas A KPWA]

Folks,

Since we've been talking about updates, I got this today from the Emperor
Linux folks, who installed RH on a couple of work laptops.

> -----Original Message-----
> 
> Customers running Red Hat 9.0,
> 
> Red Hat has recently released a badly broken automatic update of GLIBC
> and nptl onto their Red Hat Network (RHN) service.  Please _DO_NOT_
> download this update onto your system, nor any other associated
> updates.  We have received quite a few reports already from our
> customers that the GLIBC update has broken their RH9 systems.
> 
> Symptoms include:
>         - Inability to log in to X with Gnome
>         - Can't "startx" if gnome is your WM
>         - rpm broken (can't open pkg database)
>         - breaks anything useing gthread-posix.c / 
> pthread_getschedparam
> 
> > I installed the glibc, nscd, and nptl-devel stuff all using redhat
> > network.  At that point, things started going wrong.  rpm would no
> > longer work.  I tried a reboot, and was then no longer able 
> to log in
> > via X except via a failsafe mode.  (Both failsafe and console still
> > worked, although even in those logins rpm was still broken.) 
> 
> At this time we are working for a fix for these problems.  
> The final fix
> should probably come from Red Hat, but that may take some time.
> 
> We will try to get this fixed as soon as possible.  It 
> appears that KDE
> is unaffected (so you can still get into your system to work).
> 
> 
> 	-- Lincoln


In Harmony's Way and In A Chord,

Tom  ;-})

Tom Condon
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