after upgrading glibc in RedHat 5.2, some programs became seg-fault. kcchung@webnix|16:02:16|~$rpm -qa|grep glibc glibc-devel-2.0.7-29.2 glibc-2.0.7-29.2 kcchung@webnix|16:02:25|~$echo $SHELL /bin/bash kcchung@webnix|16:02:28|~$rpm -qa|grep tcsh tcsh-6.09-4 kcchung@webnix|16:02:37|~$tcsh Segmentation fault kcchung@webnix|16:02:38|~$rpm -qa|grep elm elm-2.5.3-6 kcchung@webnix|16:02:43|~$elm Segmentation fault kcchung@webnix|16:02:45|~$newmail Segmentation fault kcchung@webnix|16:43:48|~$uname -a Linux ns1.webnix.com 2.2.17pre19 #1 Sun Sep 3 16:32:32 CST 2000 i686 unknown kcchung@webnix|16:45:54|~$cat /etc/redhat-release Red Hat Linux release 5.2 (Apollo)
It looks like it also blows up cpio, which renders rpm inoperable. thus killing the ability to undo the update... time to dig up that rescue floppy. I would strongly recommend pulling this glibc update ASAP.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 17187 ***