glibc update on ppc32/fc6 fubar?

[David Woodhouse]

On Sat, 2007-01-20 at 12:16 -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> Greetings. 
> 
> I just picked up a old g4/466 box to use for fedora ppc builds and
> testing....
> 
> First, minor issue... had to figure out that I needed to hit a 'c' on
> boot to get it to boot from the cdrom. Perhaps that should be added to
> the release notes?
> 
> Once I got that figured I got fc6 installed and working with no
> problems. Then I tried to 'yum update' the newly installed machine... 
> This resulted in a segfault in the libselinux package update: 
> 
>  Updating  : libsepol                     #####################
> [ 26/426] 
> error: %post(libsepol-1.15.3-1.fc6.ppc) scriptlet failed, exit status
> 255
>   Updating  : libselinux                   ############
> [ 27/426]Segmentation fault
> 
> Re-installing and trying various things, it looks like it's the glibc
> update that is causing the issue. 
> 
> Downloading Packages:
> (1/2): glibc-2.5-10.fc6.p 100% |=========================| 7.2 MB    02:57     
> (2/2): glibc-common-2.5-1 100% |=========================|  18 MB    00:44     
> Running Transaction Test
> Finished Transaction Test
> Transaction Test Succeeded
> Running Transaction
>   Updating  : glibc-common                 ######################### [1/4] 
> error: unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/lib/locale/zh_CN/LC_PAPER: cpio: link
>   Updating  : glibc                                                  [2/4]warning: /etc/localtime created as /etc/localtime.rpmnew
>   Updating  : glibc                        ######################### [2/4] 
> error: unpacking of archive failed on file /lib/ld-2.5.so: cpio: open
>   Cleanup   : glibc-common                 ######################### [3/4]
> 
> Updated: glibc.ppc 0:2.5-10.fc6
> Dependency Updated: glibc-common.ppc 0:2.5-10.fc6
> Complete!
> [root at marva ~]# ls
> -bash: /bin/ls: No such file or directory
> 
> At this point the dynamic linker isn't happy and pretty much nothing will work. 
> 
> Is this a known problem? 
> Am I doing something wrong?

Hm, please file in bugzilla. If you can boot from an install CD and use
rescue mode to investigate further, that would be useful. I haven't seen
this on any FC6/ppc machines.

Can you run the dynamic linker manually? If you boot in rescue mode and
check the files (ld-2.5.so, libc.so.6 etc.) are they actually OK? And
can they be used?


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dwmw2