Re: System hangup after installing glibc-rpms

On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 14:22, sMoTo wrote:
> I have installed the source-rpms provided by
> selinux-usr-2003081307.tgz. On a single Processor machine I have built
> the glibc-* rpms for i386 (Redhat 9).
>
> I installed them and got an error that says: %post install error.
> Further on I rebooted the machine, but while shuting down, the
> runlevel-scripts can’t be accessed. When starting up the kernel boots
> and the root partion can be accessed, but when it comes to start the
> first runlevel the system hangs and says: ID X respawning too fast.
>
> How can I slove this problem? I can’t find a hint what is running
> wrong. I thought the selinux-glibc should be compatible to the
> original one.

Same issue arises for RH9 errata glibc, see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=88456.

You should have built glibc with --target=i686 as well as --target=i386, then installed the i686 glibc RPM along with the other i386 glibc-* RPMS, excluding the i386 glibc RPM. If you can boot from rescue, you may be able to delete /lib/i686 on the disk and get it working again...it is trying to use the old i686 libs since they weren't deleted by the upgrade.

-- 
Stephen Smalley <sds@epoch.ncsc.mil>
National Security Agency


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