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On Thu, Apr 07, 2011 at 04:56:11PM +0200, Haendel Kristina wrote:
> our automatic nightly yum update has loaded glibc 2.5-58.
> Since this morning, some users on some machines sometimes (I can't say
> It more clear) have no gnome panel.
The following is not a proper repair, but after some hours of
trying a few things, I am back to a working panel and desktop.
The problem appears to be the improperly tested update to
glibc-2.5.58. I used rpmbone to find and download the
following rpms in a directory ( ~/downloads/glibc for me ):
glibc-2.5-49.el5_5.7.i386.rpm
glibc-common-2.5-49.el5_5.7.i386.rpm
glibc-devel-2.5-49.el5_5.7.i386.rpm
glibc-headers-2.5-49.el5_5.7.i386.rpm
nscd-2.5-49.el5_5.7.i386.rpm
I used rpm --oldpackage -Uvh * to install these. However,
some of my personal gnome .directories were still messed
up. I use dirvish for backups, so I went to my April 4th
nightly image, and restored the data from these directories:
.gconf/
.gconfd/
.gnome2/
.metacity/
.nautilus/
I don't know which of those was actually needed, but I liked
my desktop on April 4 a lot better than this morning, so I
removed and replaced all those recently changed directories
on my machine. I hope someone can tell us what files really
need changing, and what can be left as-is.
Now to do that to a few other broken machines, and to turn off
updates for glibc and nscd until a better update comes along,
by adding this line to /etc/yum.conf:
exclude glibc* nscd*
While I realize that I may lose some security protection this
way, it is better to run insecure than to not be able to work.
I hope I don't have to wait long before we get a new update
that actually works:
Keith
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