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

[Net Llama!]

I can vouch for this.  My RH9 box is trashed as a result.

On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Condon Thomas A KPWA wrote:

>
> 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
> Registered Linux User #154358
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