On 07/04/2009 11:16 AM, Pete Zaitcev wrote:
On Fri, 3 Jul 2009 12:04:44 +0000, Rawhide Report
<rawhide(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> glibc-2.10.90-2
> ---------------
> * Thu Jul 02 2009 Andreas Schwab <aschwab(a)redhat.com> 2.10.90-2
> - Update from master.
>
> * Fri Jun 26 2009 Andreas Schwab <aschwab(a)redhat.com> 2.10.90-1
> - Update from master.
> - Enable multi-arch support on x86/x86-64.
> - Add requires glibc-headers to glibc-devel (#476295).
> - Implement second fallback mode for DNS requests (#505105).
> - Don't generate invalid POSIX TZ string for Asia/Dhaka timezone (#506941).
> - Allow backtrace through __longjmp_chk on powerpc.
This glibc makes all applications to segfault immediately (on x86_64),
rendering system unbootable and unrecoverable without external help.
I copied glibc files from another box to make my workstation working
again.
I hit this as well, rolling back to: glibc-2.10.1-2 got me running again.
~spot