Re: yum problem with glibc

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Johnny Hughes wrote:

>> Johnny Hughes suggested the command, so on that basis alone
>> I would give it a high probability of success.
> 
> If you have ALL the latest glibc/nscd files to replace all the installed
> RPMS in the same place, and if you upgrade them all at the same time
> (including any i686 ones that you have installed).. then it SHOULD work
> properly and not break.  I would say that the probability of success is
> close to 100% ... IF you have the proper files in the directory when you
> do the force install.

Thanks again for your useful advice.
I'm going over to Italy in a couple of weeks now,
so I'll leave it till then and do the "rpm --force" 
when I'm sitting at the server.

> Whenever you run extremely important commands (like "yum update" or "rpm
> -Uvh --force") you need to be running these from inside a "screen"
> session.  This will prevent a connectivity issue and subsequent
> disconnect from killing all running processes in your current shell.

Yes, thanks, I'd forgotten that possibility.

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Timothy Murphy  
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