[PlanetCCRMA] problem with new redhat glibc

[Taybin Rutkin]

I've found that by booting with old 2.4.20-8, everything seems to be
working fine.  There's also a new update from redhat.  Maybe that fixes
the problem.  Dare I?

Taybin

On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 15:48, Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
> > > Yuck! Did you try with more recent Planet CCRMA kernels? What kind of
> > > error did you see happening? I wonder if they (by mistake) released a
> > > version with the non-nptl compatibility stuff...
> > 
> > I didn't try it with a more recent kernel. The errors were:
> > 
> > Mozilla: segfault right after a clone
> > rpm: can't open rpm database. rpm does use a bunch of threads
> > gnome: error creating a process
> > 
> > So, yeah, it does seem to be NPTL-related.
> 
> We are not alone, see:
>   http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=109904
> 
> He does not make any reference to kernels so this may be a generic
> problem. Did you try to boot into the RedHat kernel? It would be
> interesting for RedHat to know if it is working in the RedHat kernel and
> not working on the Planet CCRMA. 
> 
> There is a workaround in the bug report for (at least) getting rpm to
> work again:
> 
> Leonardo Rodrigues wrote:
> > Doing some research, I found that doing:
> > export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.1
> > would solve, for example, the 'rpm' problems. Everything worked fine 
> > with LD_ASSUME_KERNEL but stops working after 'unset 
> > LD_ASSUME_KERNEL'.
> > 
> > Anyway, I've downgraded (rpm -Uvh --force) glibc to glibc-2.3.2-
> > 27.9.i686.rpm and assume this is not right. I had to use 
> > LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.1 for being able to downgrade glibc RPMs.
> 
> So, for the moment, don't upgrade to the latest glibc from RedHat!!
> Again, kudos to Greg for the very fast warning. 
> -- Fernando
> 
> 
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