On Sat, Jul 04, 2009 at 12:36:25PM -0400, Tom spot Callaway wrote:
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.
It is actually prelink, a fixed prelink is in package CVS, but can't be
built because libselinux is broken.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=509575
Jakub