Re: Rawhide users: don't update to 20201208.n.0 packages (fprintd 1.90.6), console login and su are broken

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Greetings.

Looking to run an installation (and update perhaps).  Is it now safe?

Maybe:
sudo dnf update --exclude=fprintd 

Regards and thanks for the early warning.

Onyeibo


On Wed Dec 9, 2020 at 9:53 PM WAT, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Wed, 2020-12-09 at 12:02 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > On Wed, 2020-12-09 at 10:34 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > > Hey folks!
> > > 
> > > Just a heads up that the most recent Rawhide compose (20201208.n.0)
> > > seems badly broken; console login doesn't work and 'su' segfaults. I
> > > think the most likely cause of these issues is the new glibc 2.32.9000-
> > > 19.fc34 build.
> > > 
> > > So if you're running Rawhide I'd recommend holding off on updating, and
> > > especially on updating glibc, if you didn't do it already. If you've
> > > updated glibc you may want to downgrade it (if you still have a root
> > > shell somewhere :>)
> > 
> > Still looking into this, but it seems kinda complex. Downgrading glibc
> > on my test VM didn't fix the issues. I thought sssd might be the
> > culprit, but downgrading that didn't help either.
> > 
> > It seems like the console login bug at least doesn't happen with a
> > minimal package install:
> > https://openqa.fedoraproject.org/tests/737305
> > passed, including console login as user and root, and I verified that
> > it used the packages from the 1208.n.0 compose. But it seems to
> > reliably happen on Server, Workstation and KDE installs. So it's
> > apparently caused by something present in those installs but not in
> > minimal...
> > 
> > Still looking into this, my advice for now is still not to upgrade past
> > the 1207.n.0 package state until it's figured out :)
>
> OK, further update: culprit seems to be fprintd. fprintd 1.90.6 is the
> bad version. A 1.90.7 build is done which should fix it:
>
> https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=1656747
>
> A libfprint 1.90.6 is also done, not sure if that's also needed:
>
> https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=1656771
>
> There were bug reports already that I hadn't found as I was looking for
> glibc bugs:
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1905667
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1905964
>
> so, skip fprintd 1.90.6!
> --
> Adam Williamson
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