On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 14:46:11 -0400,
Tom Horsley <horsley1953(a)gmail.com> wrote:
One thing that might work (but I wouldn't do it until the
only alternative is reinstall from scratch) is to get on
a working linux, download the updated (or downgraded) glibc
rpm, use rpm2cpio to extract the files, then just replace
the .so library files with the ones extracted from the
rpm (while booted via live cd or rescue disk).
Yum would still think you have the busted glibc installed, but
the actual shared libs would now be working versions and
the system might boot.
That's what I had to do on one system. The machine won't boot off live usb
devices and the livecd image I had lying around had too old of a kernel
for me to run yum in a chroot.