Folks, Since we've been talking about updates, I got this today from the Emperor Linux folks, who installed RH on a couple of work laptops.
> -----Original Message----- > > Customers running Red Hat 9.0, > > Red Hat has recently released a badly broken automatic update of GLIBC > and nptl onto their Red Hat Network (RHN) service. Please _DO_NOT_ > download this update onto your system, nor any other associated > updates. We have received quite a few reports already from our > customers that the GLIBC update has broken their RH9 systems. > > Symptoms include: > - Inability to log in to X with Gnome > - Can't "startx" if gnome is your WM > - rpm broken (can't open pkg database) > - breaks anything useing gthread-posix.c / > pthread_getschedparam > > > I installed the glibc, nscd, and nptl-devel stuff all using redhat > > network. At that point, things started going wrong. rpm would no > > longer work. I tried a reboot, and was then no longer able > to log in > > via X except via a failsafe mode. (Both failsafe and console still > > worked, although even in those logins rpm was still broken.) > > At this time we are working for a fix for these problems. > The final fix > should probably come from Red Hat, but that may take some time. > > We will try to get this fixed as soon as possible. It > appears that KDE > is unaffected (so you can still get into your system to work). > > > -- Lincoln In Harmony's Way and In A Chord, Tom ;-}) Tom Condon Registered Linux User #154358 Plain Text Emails Don't Spread Virii! _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
