I can vouch for this. My RH9 box is trashed as a result. On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Condon Thomas A KPWA wrote:
> > 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 > -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lonni J Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo http://netllama.ipfox.com _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
