Bug 88771 - rpm -Fhv glibc-2.3.2-27.9.i386.rpm results in broken system
Summary: rpm -Fhv glibc-2.3.2-27.9.i386.rpm results in broken system
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 88456
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: glibc
Version: 9
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jakub Jelinek
QA Contact: Brian Brock
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Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2003-04-13 21:07 UTC by Zenon Panoussis
Modified: 2016-11-24 15:05 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Last Closed: 2006-02-21 18:52:39 UTC
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Description Zenon Panoussis 2003-04-13 21:07:30 UTC
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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030225

Description of problem:
Upgrading from glibc-2.3.2-11.9 to glibc-2.3.2-27.9.i386 leaves *both* versions
on the system. Once that happens, everything segfaults. On reboot (brutal
reboot, the reboot command segfaults too), init gets confused, spits out a
"respawning too fast, disabled for 5 minutes" message for each and every
runlevel and stalls. 

Workaround: Boot from another installation/CD. If 
   # rpm -qa --root /your/root |grep glibc 
shows both versions of glibc present, do
   # rpm --force --root /your/root -e glibc-2.3.2-11.9 
and reboot again.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
glibc-2.3.2-27.9

How reproducible:
Twice

Steps to Reproduce:
This happened to me on two different systems. 

Expected Results:  The later version should uninstall the earlier one.

Comment 1 Jakub Jelinek 2003-04-13 21:10:47 UTC
Why are you "upgrading" from i686 version to i386 one?

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 88456 ***

Comment 2 Zenon Panoussis 2003-04-13 21:44:28 UTC
Perhaps because I was too charmed by "wget -nd *; rpm -Fhv *.rpm". This still
shouldn't happen. 

BTW, having read the discussion on 88456, I can add that was upgrading 9, not
from 8.0. 

Comment 3 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-02-21 18:52:39 UTC
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.


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