On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 06:30, phani wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>   I have a redhat 9 on intel machine.yesterday I was applying the security 
> patches for redhat 9 and I got segmentation fault.I restarted the machine but 
> unable to boot the system.I have the following messages 
> entering run level 5
> init 5 :spawning too fast delayed for 5 minutes.

Ah, glibc update strikes again. Been there, tried that, didn't like it.
The fix:

Use CD#1 as a rescue image (type "linux rescue" at the boot prompt).

(b) rpm --root=/mnt/sysimage -qa | grep glibc

showed that glibc-common was updated, but both
glibc packages exist in the rpm database.
  OLD: glibc-2.3.2-11.9
  NEW: glibc-2.3.2-27.9

(2) removed glibc-2.3.2-11.9
    rpm --root=/mnt/sysimage -e glibc-2.3.2-11.9

    reinstalled glibc and glibc-common from the CDROM
      they were under /mnt/source/RedHat/RPMS/

    rpm --root=/mnt/sysimage -Uvh --force glibc-2.3.2-11.9.i686.rpm
glibc-common-2.3.2-11.9.i386.rpm

(3) test it out
    chroot /mnt/sysimage

You will know if the system fixed if the chroot does not segfault.

Next time you patch, only use the i686 glibc rpms or use something
like redcarpet to do it right for you.

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