glibc update on ppc32/fc6 fubar?

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 12:41:37 +1100
David Woodhouse <dwmw2 at infradead.org> wrote:

> On Sun, 2007-01-21 at 17:29 -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> > 
> > Yeah, one of the attempts I did a 'setenforce 0' before the yum
> > update. 
> > 
> > It happened 3 times in a row, so I would think it's repeatable, then
> > someone else was using the machine for a test and upgraded glibc and
> > it worked, so not sure whats going on. Could prelink have anything
> > to do with it? All my attempts were right after the install... 
> 
> It's vaguely possible, but I don't see why prelink would result in
> files just being _absent_.
> 
> > I will try and re-install and gather info for the bug soon. 
> > (Either tonight or tomorrow). 
> 
> OK, thanks

Ok. I finally found the time to do a bunch of re-installs and tracked
down the problem. 

This box is a old surplus g4, and the cmos (PRAM?) battery is dead as a
doornail. So, powering up it has the time as being: 

Thu Dec 31 17:45:43 MST 1903

If I do a update of glibc without setting the correct time, it blows up
in the manner I have seen. ie, /etc/ld-2.5.so gets blown away and the
machine is dead in the water. ;) 

So, it's a bug, but a weird one. Do you still want me to file a bug? 
Against what? 

kevin

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