On Tue, 28 Sep 2010, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 14:38:51 -0400 > Erinn Looney-Triggs wrote: > >> Any other alternatives? > > One thing that might work (but I wouldn't do it until the > only alternative is reinstall from scratch) is to get on > a working linux, download the updated (or downgraded) glibc > rpm, use rpm2cpio to extract the files, then just replace > the .so library files with the ones extracted from the > rpm (while booted via live cd or rescue disk). > > Yum would still think you have the busted glibc installed, but > the actual shared libs would now be working versions and > the system might boot. Various alternatives exist... the rescue image has a working ftp-client so you can download known-good versions of glibc packages from there and then run rpm, eg: rpm -Uvh --oldpackage --root /mnt/sysimage </path/to/glibc*rpms> - Panu - -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
