Bug 110041
| Summary: | Installing yesterday's Red Hat Network updates causes Gnome (and other programs) to fail | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Gerry Wisnoski <gerry.wisnoski> |
| Component: | glibc | Assignee: | Jakub Jelinek <jakub> |
| Status: | CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE | QA Contact: | Brian Brock <bbrock> |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | high | ||
| Version: | 9 | CC: | david, fweimer, gafton, gerry.wisnoski, mihai.ibanescu |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i686 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | 2.3.2-27.9.7 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2003-11-18 07:33:34 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Hi, I'm not sure if these comments are relevant here or should go in a separate bug... The glibc 2.3.2-27.9.6 update the other day did not play well with my NVIDIA FX5600, using the latest driver (1.0-4496), crashing when loading X - where the NVIDIA logo should be displayed. I got X working agian by reverting glibc to 2.3.2-11.9. Looking at XFree86.0.log, it got as far as: (II) Loading extension GLX ...then just stopped. I was able to reboot (ctrl-alt-del seting runlevel to 6) and in runlevel 3, revert glibc to the earlier version, after which ithings were back to normal. I don't know if this is a bug in glibc or one in the NVIDIA driver, and I've already posted in the NVIDIA forums about it. It's possible that it's related to http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=219352 My system is Redhat 9 with Athlon and a NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 / 128MB DDR / 8x AGP / DVI card. $ uname -a Linux localhost.localdomain 2.4.21-1.ll.acpi #1 Sat Jun 14 13:06:47 PDT 2003 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux The problem turned out to be the glibc-2.3.2-27.9.6 update on RHN last Thursday. The "...27.9.7" replacement showed up on RHN Friday and updating to that version fixed everything. Thanks to Dr. Lincoln Durey at EmperorLinux for the info and fix instructions. Confirming that glibc-2.3.2-27.9.7 works ok for me - Just installed it and restarted X with no problems. Thanks. OK, so everybody is fine then. I close the bug. Not really, I have upgraded from original 2.3.2-11.9 to 2.3.2-27.9.7 and some third party applications started to segfault. Had to revert back. Has not noticed problems with RedHat applications, however. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030225 Description of problem: Yesterday I ran up2date to install the 21 updates notes by the Red Hat Network Alert Icon (mostly glibc and postgresql components). After these updates installed (with no problems), lots of things stopped working, notably my Gnome desktop. I was able to login using KDE though and with some web searches, found that I could get some programs to work by prefixing the command with "LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5 ". In particular, rpm now fails to work properly and I can't get up2date to work at all. I have updated rpm to the latest available version (rpm-4.2-0.69) but I'm still having no luck running most programs unless I manually prefix the command with "LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5 " -- this means that many icons and menu items do not work. I can't get Gnome to work at all. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): up2date-3.1.23.2-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Apply yesterday's Red Hat Network updates 2. logout and try to login using Gnome 3. When that fails, login using KDE and try to run mozilla, evolution, rpm, up2date, etc. Actual Results: 1. Gnome login fails with a warning that the session lasted less than 10 seconds and a suggestion to try a failsafe login 2. KDE login works 3. Many programs fail to run Expected Results: 1. Normal login and running of the usual programs I run every day Additional info: Here are some diagnostics: ------------------------------------------------------------------ toucan:root:root:705 # rpm -q up2date rpmdb: unable to join the environment error: db4 error(11) from dbenv->open: Resource temporarily unavailable error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - Resource temporarily unavailable (11) error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm package up2date is not installed You have new mail in /var/spool/mail/root toucan:root:root:706 # LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5 rpm -q up2date up2date-3.1.23.2-1 ------------------------------------------------------------------ I was able to run "LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5 rpm --rebuilddb" though.