[CentOS] glibc-2.5-58.el5_6.2.i686 broken?

2011-04-26 Thread Richard Mollel
Hi, Please note RHEL has just released a fix for this issue: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-0466.html Lets hope it makes it into centos soon... _Thanks Richard Mollel ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] glibc-2.5-58.el5_6.2.i686 broken?

2011-04-26 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 04/26/2011 02:54 PM, Richard Mollel wrote: Hi, Please note RHEL has just released a fix for this issue: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-0466.html Lets hope it makes it into centos soon... I started building it about 20 minutes ago ... it will be released in a couple of

Re: [CentOS] glibc-2.5-58.el5_6.2.i686 broken?

2011-04-20 Thread Reynolds McClatchey
Many thanks for the rpm's. I had some evolution stored documents that I really needed. I've applied them to two systems. Is it possible that the gnome panel problem is only on CRT's and not LEDs? Seems like one of my systems fixed itself when I changed monitors. -- M Reynolds McClatchey Jr

Re: [CentOS] glibc-2.5-58.el5_6.2.i686 broken?

2011-04-19 Thread Peter Kjellström
On Tuesday, April 19, 2011 02:07:04 AM Ron Blizzard wrote: On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 4:16 PM, Tom Sorensen tsoren...@gmail.com wrote: There is a known issue with one of the security updates on that version of glibc. That said, it's still *highly* recommended that you update. There are

Re: [CentOS] glibc-2.5-58.el5_6.2.i686 broken?

2011-04-19 Thread Ron Blizzard
On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 10:25 PM, Johnny Hughes joh...@centos.org wrote: On 04/18/2011 07:51 PM, John R. Dennison wrote:       There is an update in QA at Redhat now to address these issues. Do you know a bug entry with the patch (and/or SRPM) that they are using? This may not be what you're

Re: [CentOS] glibc-2.5-58.el5_6.2.i686 broken?

2011-04-19 Thread Ron Blizzard
On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 7:21 PM, fred smith fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us wrote: What works for me is, after I log in and find the panels are empty, do CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE then log in again and the panels are working. A fairly low-pain workaround. It is for me also (with the pkill gnome-panel

Re: [CentOS] glibc-2.5-58.el5_6.2.i686 broken?

2011-04-19 Thread Ron Blizzard
On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 10:48 PM, Robert Heller hel...@deepsoft.com wrote: Are only the nVidia chipsets + *proprietary* nVidia drivers?  And only Evolution and Gnome-Panel?  And is it 32-bit AND 64-bit or only 32-bit (or only 64-bit)? I can't say -- this is just my personal experience. The

Re: [CentOS] glibc-2.5-58.el5_6.2.i686 broken?

2011-04-19 Thread Ron Blizzard
2011/4/19 Peter Kjellström c...@nsc.liu.se: On Tuesday, April 19, 2011 02:07:04 AM Ron Blizzard wrote: For clarification, this bug is only known to be affecting Evolution and Gnome-Panel, correct? Those are the only known problems with this glibc version. We've been running ~2000 servers

Re: [CentOS] glibc-2.5-58.el5_6.2.i686 broken?

2011-04-19 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 04/18/2011 10:48 PM, Robert Heller wrote: At Mon, 18 Apr 2011 19:07:04 -0500 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 4:16 PM, Tom Sorensen tsoren...@gmail.com wrote: There is a known issue with one of the security updates on that version of glibc. That

Re: [CentOS] glibc-2.5-58.el5_6.2.i686 broken?

2011-04-19 Thread Mihai T. Lazarescu
On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 05:26:17AM -0500, Ron Blizzard wrote: On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 10:48 PM, Robert Heller hel...@deepsoft.com wrote: Are only the nVidia chipsets + *proprietary* nVidia drivers?  And only Evolution and Gnome-Panel?  And is it 32-bit AND 64-bit or only 32-bit (or only

Re: [CentOS] glibc-2.5-58.el5_6.2.i686 broken?

2011-04-19 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 04/19/2011 05:13 AM, Ron Blizzard wrote: On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 10:25 PM, Johnny Hughes joh...@centos.org wrote: On 04/18/2011 07:51 PM, John R. Dennison wrote: There is an update in QA at Redhat now to address these issues. Do you know a bug entry with the patch (and/or SRPM) that

Re: [CentOS] glibc-2.5-58.el5_6.2.i686 broken?

2011-04-19 Thread Markus Falb
On 18.4.2011 17:40, Les Mikesell wrote: On 4/18/2011 10:18 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote: Where is it (besides their bugzilla) that upstream warns customers of this known issue? I am all for fixing things and posting things and such, but CentOS (with no SLA) is now being held to a higher standard

Re: [CentOS] glibc-2.5-58.el5_6.2.i686 broken?

2011-04-19 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 04/18/2011 10:40 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: On 4/18/2011 10:18 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote: Where is it (besides their bugzilla) that upstream warns customers of this known issue? I am all for fixing things and posting things and such, but CentOS (with no SLA) is now being held to a higher

Re: [CentOS] glibc-2.5-58.el5_6.2.i686 broken?

2011-04-19 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 04/16/2011 08:18 PM, Akemi Yagi wrote: On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 6:14 PM, Leonard den Ottolander leon...@den.ottolander.nl wrote: Hi, I woke up Saturday morning unable to boot my freshly upgraded 5.6 with grub hanging at GRUB. After getting the boot loader fixed I experienced crashes in

Re: [CentOS] glibc-2.5-58.el5_6.2.i686 broken?

2011-04-19 Thread m . roth
Ron Blizzard wrote: 2011/4/19 Peter Kjellström c...@nsc.liu.se: On Tuesday, April 19, 2011 02:07:04 AM Ron Blizzard wrote: For clarification, this bug is only known to be affecting Evolution and Gnome-Panel, correct? Those are the only known problems with this glibc version. We've been

Re: [CentOS] glibc-2.5-58.el5_6.2.i686 broken?

2011-04-19 Thread Peter Kjellström
On Tuesday, April 19, 2011 05:06:49 PM m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Ron Blizzard wrote: 2011/4/19 Peter Kjellström c...@nsc.liu.se: On Tuesday, April 19, 2011 02:07:04 AM Ron Blizzard wrote: For clarification, this bug is only known to be affecting Evolution and Gnome-Panel, correct?

Re: [CentOS] glibc-2.5-58.el5_6.2.i686 broken?

2011-04-19 Thread Robert Heller
At Tue, 19 Apr 2011 05:49:59 -0500 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: On 04/18/2011 10:48 PM, Robert Heller wrote: At Mon, 18 Apr 2011 19:07:04 -0500 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 4:16 PM, Tom Sorensen tsoren...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [CentOS] glibc-2.5-58.el5_6.2.i686 broken?

2011-04-19 Thread Les Mikesell
On 4/19/2011 7:12 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote: Good question, and I'd be very surprised if there is no answer. Killing evolution and Gnome panel should be a very visible issue and CentOS has the dubious luxury of some time elapsing before updates are duplicated to become aware of any bad

Re: [CentOS] glibc-2.5-58.el5_6.2.i686 broken?

2011-04-19 Thread Tru Huynh
On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 12:38:50PM -0400, Robert Heller wrote: please trim your quotes *I* found a new X client that I *guess* is affected: xrdb (which I suspect almost no one actually uses anymore). I get this error from xrdb: sh: -c: line 0: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `'

Re: [CentOS] glibc-2.5-58.el5_6.2.i686 broken?

2011-04-18 Thread Ron Blizzard
On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 9:52 AM, Leonard den Ottolander leon...@den.ottolander.nl wrote: Please don't take this the wrong way, but not everybody reads the forums. Perhaps it is possible to give a heads up about such breakage via the CentOS general or announce mailing list before such a broken

Re: [CentOS] glibc-2.5-58.el5_6.2.i686 broken?

2011-04-18 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 04/17/2011 09:52 AM, Leonard den Ottolander wrote: Hi Akemi, On Sat, 2011-04-16 at 18:18 -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote: See also: http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=30939forum=37 Please don't take this the wrong way, but not everybody reads the forums. Perhaps it is

Re: [CentOS] glibc-2.5-58.el5_6.2.i686 broken?

2011-04-18 Thread m . roth
Johnny Hughes wrote: On 04/17/2011 09:52 AM, Leonard den Ottolander wrote: snip I would like to advice everyone to avoid this update by adding exclude=glibc*2.5-58.el5_6.2 nscd*2.5-58.el5_6.2 to their updates channel config - added it to base just to be sure - until upstream releases a fix.

Re: [CentOS] glibc-2.5-58.el5_6.2.i686 broken?

2011-04-18 Thread Les Mikesell
On 4/18/2011 10:18 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote: Where is it (besides their bugzilla) that upstream warns customers of this known issue? I am all for fixing things and posting things and such, but CentOS (with no SLA) is now being held to a higher standard than upstream (with paid customers)?

Re: [CentOS] glibc-2.5-58.el5_6.2.i686 broken?

2011-04-18 Thread Tom Sorensen
On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 11:36 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Johnny Hughes wrote: On 04/17/2011 09:52 AM, Leonard den Ottolander wrote: snip I would like to advice everyone to avoid this update by adding exclude=glibc*2.5-58.el5_6.2 nscd*2.5-58.el5_6.2 to their updates channel config - added

Re: [CentOS] glibc-2.5-58.el5_6.2.i686 broken?

2011-04-18 Thread m . roth
Tom Sorensen wrote: On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 11:36 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Johnny Hughes wrote: On 04/17/2011 09:52 AM, Leonard den Ottolander wrote: snip I would like to advice everyone to avoid this update by adding exclude=glibc*2.5-58.el5_6.2 nscd*2.5-58.el5_6.2 to their updates

Re: [CentOS] glibc-2.5-58.el5_6.2.i686 broken?

2011-04-18 Thread James Hogarth
snip Except for a handful, all of my systems are on 5.5. I don't have to update until this is fixed Then you are probably vulnerable to the CVEs you do realise that '5.5' stopped getting updates when 5.6 was released? Apart from a specific costly situation upstream there is only '5'

Re: [CentOS] glibc-2.5-58.el5_6.2.i686 broken?

2011-04-18 Thread Ron Blizzard
On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 4:16 PM, Tom Sorensen tsoren...@gmail.com wrote: There is a known issue with one of the security updates on that version of glibc. That said, it's still *highly* recommended that you update. There are four CVEs closed by this glibc update, one of which is potentially

Re: [CentOS] glibc-2.5-58.el5_6.2.i686 broken?

2011-04-18 Thread John R. Dennison
On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 07:07:04PM -0500, Ron Blizzard wrote: At any rate, there are work-arounds -- for those who use Evolution, the SL update is probably the best. I'm kind of surprised that Red Hat has not issued a fix yet. There is an update in QA at Redhat now to address these

Re: [CentOS] glibc-2.5-58.el5_6.2.i686 broken?

2011-04-18 Thread fred smith
On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 07:07:04PM -0500, Ron Blizzard wrote: On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 4:16 PM, Tom Sorensen tsoren...@gmail.com wrote: There is a known issue with one of the security updates on that version of glibc. That said, it's still *highly* recommended that you update. There are

Re: [CentOS] glibc-2.5-58.el5_6.2.i686 broken?

2011-04-18 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 04/18/2011 07:51 PM, John R. Dennison wrote: On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 07:07:04PM -0500, Ron Blizzard wrote: At any rate, there are work-arounds -- for those who use Evolution, the SL update is probably the best. I'm kind of surprised that Red Hat has not issued a fix yet. There is

Re: [CentOS] glibc-2.5-58.el5_6.2.i686 broken?

2011-04-18 Thread John R. Dennison
On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 10:25:58PM -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote: Do you know a bug entry with the patch (and/or SRPM) that they are using? No. I hit someone I know in Raleigh up about it on Saturday and he mentioned it was in QA.

Re: [CentOS] glibc-2.5-58.el5_6.2.i686 broken?

2011-04-17 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hi Akemi, On Sat, 2011-04-16 at 18:18 -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote: See also: http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=30939forum=37 Please don't take this the wrong way, but not everybody reads the forums. Perhaps it is possible to give a heads up about such breakage via the

Re: [CentOS] glibc-2.5-58.el5_6.2.i686 broken?

2011-04-17 Thread Eero Volotinen
2011/4/17 Leonard den Ottolander leon...@den.ottolander.nl: Hi Akemi, On Sat, 2011-04-16 at 18:18 -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote: See also: http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=30939forum=37 Please don't take this the wrong way, but not everybody reads the forums. Perhaps

Re: [CentOS] glibc-2.5-58.el5_6.2.i686 broken?

2011-04-17 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Eero, On Sun, 2011-04-17 at 18:27 +0300, Eero Volotinen wrote: Does this also affects grub? if so, then this is very critical, it can trash my rhel installations :/ Well I am not sure, it could be a coincidence, but on my Sempron (i686) system I had to fix a broken grub (hanging at GRUB)

Re: [CentOS] glibc-2.5-58.el5_6.2.i686 broken?

2011-04-17 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 7:52 AM, Leonard den Ottolander leon...@den.ottolander.nl wrote: Hi Akemi, On Sat, 2011-04-16 at 18:18 -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote: See also: http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=30939forum=37 Please don't take this the wrong way, but not everybody

Re: [CentOS] glibc-2.5-58.el5_6.2.i686 broken?

2011-04-17 Thread Rainer Traut
Am 17.04.2011 16:52, schrieb Leonard den Ottolander: Hi Akemi, On Sat, 2011-04-16 at 18:18 -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote: See also: http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=30939forum=37 Please don't take this the wrong way, but not everybody reads the forums. Perhaps it is

Re: [CentOS] glibc-2.5-58.el5_6.2.i686 broken?

2011-04-17 Thread David C. Miller
- Original Message - From: Eero Volotinen eero.voloti...@iki.fi To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org Sent: Sunday, April 17, 2011 8:27:45 AM Subject: Re: [CentOS] glibc-2.5-58.el5_6.2.i686 broken? 2011/4/17 Leonard den Ottolander leon...@den.ottolander.nl: Hi Akemi

Re: [CentOS] glibc-2.5-58.el5_6.2.i686 broken?

2011-04-17 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Rainer, On Sun, 2011-04-17 at 19:08 +0200, Rainer Traut wrote: Please don't take it wrong but Akemi gave you the link because not everyone reads the forums and the issue was discussed there. Which is highly appreciated, but it happened *after* I reported these issues, so it hardly

Re: [CentOS] glibc-2.5-58.el5_6.2.i686 broken?

2011-04-17 Thread Phil Schaffner
Leonard den Ottolander wrote on 04/17/2011 01:37 PM: ...It's a general request that if people are aware of breakage in upcoming updates to report it to this list. Agree. I would advocate posting it to this list and making it part of the Announcement post as well. This issue was discussed on

[CentOS] glibc-2.5-58.el5_6.2.i686 broken?

2011-04-16 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hi, I woke up Saturday morning unable to boot my freshly upgraded 5.6 with grub hanging at GRUB. After getting the boot loader fixed I experienced crashes in evolution. Downgrading glibc to 2.5-58 seems to fix these issues. Anyone else seeing this? Leonard. -- mount -t life -o ro /dev/dna

Re: [CentOS] glibc-2.5-58.el5_6.2.i686 broken?

2011-04-16 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 6:14 PM, Leonard den Ottolander leon...@den.ottolander.nl wrote: Hi, I woke up Saturday morning unable to boot my freshly upgraded 5.6 with grub hanging at GRUB. After getting the boot loader fixed I experienced crashes in evolution. Downgrading glibc to 2.5-58 seems

Re: [CentOS] glibc-2.5-58.el5_6.2.i686 broken?

2011-04-16 Thread John R. Dennison
On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 03:14:11AM +0200, Leonard den Ottolander wrote: I woke up Saturday morning unable to boot my freshly upgraded 5.6 with grub hanging at GRUB. After getting the boot loader fixed I experienced crashes in evolution. Downgrading glibc to 2.5-58 seems to fix these issues.

Re: [CentOS] glibc-2.5-58.el5_6.2.i686 broken?

2011-04-16 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello John, On Sat, 2011-04-16 at 20:19 -0500, John R. Dennison wrote: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=693882 I've heard from an OOB source that a fix is in QA at Redhat now. Is this somehow related to how my grub got broken? Or is that a different issue? Or just a coincidence :)

Re: [CentOS] glibc-2.5-58.el5_6.2.i686 broken?

2011-04-16 Thread John R. Dennison
On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 03:37:38AM +0200, Leonard den Ottolander wrote: Is this somehow related to how my grub got broken? Or is that a different issue? Or just a coincidence :) ? That I don't know, sorry. I've not seen references to that particular problem being related to the glibc issue