glibc update on ppc32/fc6 fubar?

Josh Boyer jwboyer at jdub.homelinux.org
Sun Jan 21 18:51:59 EST 2007


On Mon, 2007-01-22 at 09:31 +1100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-01-21 at 10:23 -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> > On Sun, 21 Jan 2007 22:39:46 +1100
> > David Woodhouse <dwmw2 at infradead.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > > 
> > > > 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.
> > 
> > ok. Will do. 
> > 
> > Against glibc I assume... 
> > 
> > > 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?
> > 
> > I'll try rescue later... I do know there isn't any /lib/ld-2.5.so file
> > at all. (using 'echo /lib/ld*' to list them since ls is gone). 
> 
> Hm. Did you say you were able to reproduce this? And can you reproduce
> it with SElinux turned off?

For what it's worth, I did a yum update on a crusty old 500MHz powerbook
today without issue.

josh




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