Re: Downgrading glibc from Rawhide removed /bin/sh (!)

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On Thu, Mar 07, 2019 at 12:13:22PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Richard W. M. Jones:
> 
> > $ sudo dnf install glibc-headers.i686
> …
> > Downgrading:
> 
> That looks like a bug in itself.
> 
> The last time I looked at something similar, I saw this: RPM would not
> adjust a pre-existing symbolic link to a new target very late in the
> transaction.  Like deleting old files which are gone in an update or
> downgrade, this does *not* happen when the unpacking of the replacement
> package happens, but towards the conclusion of the transaction.  In the
> meantime, scriptlets run with the broken file system.
>
> In your case, maybe one of the scriptlet errors prevented the final step
> with the adjustment of the symbolic link by RPM.
> 
> (Just to be clear, the symbolic link is regularly packaged, it's not
> something that we manage using scripts.)

I fixed this by typing ‘ldconfig’ (thankfully I had a root shell open
on the IPMI console ...)

Rich.

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