R: R: [Fedora-ia64-list] Updating glibc

[Doug Chapman]

On Thu, 2009-03-19 at 19:46 +0100, Bettoni Fabio wrote:
> I had success booting from "Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 4 (Nahant)".
> 
> How can extract glibc rpm using an old rpm-4.3.3-7_nonptl ?

You won't be able to do the new updated glibc (for the same reason as it
failed before, that version of rpm won't know how to install it) but you
can grab the original F10 version of glibc and install with this
procedure:


You should be able to:

mount your CowboyHat installation on /cowboyhat
download the original F10 version of glibc from:
http://www.cowboyhatlinux.org/pub/cowboyhat/linux/releases/10/Core/ia64/os/Packages/
(you will probably need glibc-common, glibc-headers and possibly
glibc-devel also)

rpm -Uvh --oldpackage --root=/cowboyhat glibc-2.9-2.ia64.rpm


- Doug

> 
> Fabio
> 
> -----Messaggio originale-----
> Da: fedora-ia64-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:fedora-ia64-list-bounces at redhat.com] Per conto di Doug Chapman
> Inviato: giovedì 19 marzo 2009 19.41
> A: ia64 Fedora Core Development
> Oggetto: Re: R: [Fedora-ia64-list] Updating glibc
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2009-03-19 at 19:08 +0100, Bettoni Fabio wrote:
> > Hi,
> > company rx4640 is not a production system but a useful system anyway (file server, dhcpserver) so I want to recover and not reinstall. Maybe it's updated with yum updated since Fedora Core 1 or anyway long time ago.
> >
> > I have an old Redhat server on another disc, I will check tomorrow to boot from the other disc to access Fedora disc.
> > And also I will try to download DVD to use rescue mode.
> >
> > Now I ask to you for recover options:
> > - boot from DVD with rescue option and rpm new glibc with root option
> >
> > - from log I sent to you, do you think rpm has failed to write new files from new rpm and deleted all files from old rpm? Or failed to write new files and deleted only first file from old rpm ? Can I boot from other old RHES and "unzip" new glibc rpms, if rpm is not working ? Maybe I could "unzip" glibc rpms on another working system and move to fault rx4640.
> 
> You might have success grabbing just the key glibc files and placing them on the system.  I still think booting with the rescue DVD is the best bet.  If I have time today I might try to recrate the same problem and document the exact procedure but the basic description would be:
> 
>         boot the DVD with "rescue" option
>         re-install the old (F10) version of glibc from the DVD
>         reboot back to the install
>         yum clean all
>         yum update rpm
>         (verify you now have rpm-4.6.0-11 or later)
>         yum update (to get the latest glibc)
> 
> 
> >
> > On my home PC, I installed few days ago Fedora 11 alpha x86_64 and later updated to rawhide with yum and I've got same rpm problem. Very strange I did 6-7 times and 2 times of them it worked.
> 
> Interesting that it worked some times.  I assume the cases that worked you just happened to get the new rpm before getting any packages that had the new MD5 checksum.  I guess this shows it isn't just how we did the updates in CowboyHat.  I am surprised they spec files for the more recent packages don't have some sort of dependency on the newer RPM.
> 
> - Doug
> 
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