> On Thursday, 24 July, 2003 22:45, David Demner wrote: > > A number of people (including me) had this problem. > > > > --- Original reponse thanks to Michael Fratoni --- > > Did you perhaps 'upgrade' to glibc*.i386.rpm on an i686 system? > > If so, have a look here for possible fixes: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=88456 > > --- Thanks again to Michael Fratoni --- > > > > Step #15 has instructions on how to restore an affected system. > > Thanks a lot for your link. I have scanned the answers there > but it seems that at least #15 has to be done using a linux > recover CD or something similar.
I remember pretty much everything on my machine was hooped, including ls, rpm, etc... So you probably will need physical access to the box with a recover disk/cd. > > In my case this is a remote server on which I have only > ssh access, and thus no option of using a CD. I think > I need a solution to replace this broken glibc with the > original one coming with RedHat 7.2, but using only basic > things I can download. > > I guess what I'm trying to do is manually do what > rpm -Uvh -oldpackage glibc-*-2.2.4-32.i386.rpm > would accomplish. But I have no idea where to begin. > Well, I guess you could check out http://www.redhat.com/swr/i686/glibc-2.3.2-27.9.i686_fl.html which at least lists all the files that rpm would install for you. Maybe you can get a non-rpm version of glibc (like from http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/glibc/), unpack them into a directory (assuming tar/gzip/bzip still work) and read the INSTALL doc... That may help. > Olivier > > > PS: Now I have noticed that qmail is generating lots of > message like : > > "Incorrectly built binary which accesses errno, h_errno or > _res directly. Needs to be fixed." > > I suppose this is related to the glibc change, although I > didn't see any dependencies preventing me to do it, and > certainly not qmail, except the weird > 'rpmlib(PartialHardlinkSets) <= 4.0.4-1', which is why I > used --nodeps in the first place. > Probably related to the glibc problem, but probably not because of the messed up upgrade. There was a patch to qmail that changed the reference to errno, which was changed in updated versions of glibc: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.mail.qmail.general/13960 and it's probably this. Apply the patch (I actually had to update qmail by changing the qmail code manually since the patch didn't work), recompile, and hopefully the error will go away. Good luck, David -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
