[ale] glibc recovery RH9

[Dow Hurst]

Second update: :-)
Fixed symlink in /lib/tls/ for libpthread upon reboot since that got 
moved back by some init script during boot.  Ran rpm to remove the 
broken glibc rpms.  Rebooted successfully.  Then had to switch to KDE 
instead of Gnome since Gnome won't run properly.  I don't have to time 
to mess with Gnome now, plus I prefer KDE anyway.

I seem pretty much back to normal.  The buildmodules saves me on reboot 
since the Nvidia stuff gets rebuilt automatically.  The only small 
problem I have left is that the glibc development rpm is still the later 
broken one since gcc depends on it.
Dow

PS.  RedHat's Konsole has tabbed shells disabled. :-(
The Panel won't extend over both monitors. :-(
KDE runs, the machine runs, and I can work. :-)

Dow Hurst wrote:

>Glibc has been forced back to original RH9 version from the broken one, however, XFree86 and kernel updates were applied after the glibc update, so I get some errors on boot about X not starting.  I know what update packages were applied, so if I force the old packages to be reinstalled will I recover or is a simpler way to make the packages that were updated depend on the older glib?
>
>The errors I get are for each exec that won't run is, for example:
>vim: relocation error: /lib/tls/libpthread.so.0: symbol __resp, version GLIBC_PRIVATE not defined in file libc.so.6 with link time reference
>
>Is there some simpler way of dealing with this rather than forcing rpm to back down to older packages?  Or is this a newer updated kernel issue?  I have all the kernels available at boot.  Plus, I run hyperthreaded with a SMP kernel.  Thanks for your help since I am at an impass with my knowledge of how best to proceed.
>Dow Hurst
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