Kernel panic at boot after glibc update - Can't even Boot Up!

Vector · #1 29th September 2010, 12:52 AM

In Re: Kernel panic at boot after glibc update

Ok, i actually already fixed this, but wanted to offer some advice for those of you who were not able to figure it out.

The problem is, after a bad update of glib, i couldn't even boot my Fedora Install, due to this bug. At boot, i was getting something like:

Code:

init[1] segfault at address ... ip ... sp ... ld-2.12.90 ...

Switching kernels made no difference. I used the live CD, and tried to follow some of the instructions that i got from the site linked to above. I downloaded the packages linked to in comment #22. Then I tried the example used in comment #21, using local install. I couldn't get it to work (probably because i'm a noob).

How i finally got it working from the LIVE CD was as follows:

1) download ONLY the glibc and glib-common for your architecture (i386 or x86_64) to your live desktop (or a usb drive)

2) don't use yum, but rather, use rpm, and use it in the following way:

Code:

rpm -ivh --force --root /path/to/REAL/installation's/filesystem /path/to/downloaded/glibc /path/to/downloaded/glib-common

an EXAMPLE of this command would be:

Code:

rpm -ivh --force --root /media/_Fedora_14_x86_64 /media/16_GB_Drive/glibc-2.12.90-14.x86_64.rpm /media/16_GB_Drive/glib-common-2.12.90-14.x86_64.rpm

You'll see a bunch of warning messages, but you'll be left with a bootable system again

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I hope this helps someone, because it sucks to have to reinstall!

MBender · #2 29th September 2010, 01:23 AM

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=252157

Related perhaps?

Vector · #3 29th September 2010, 01:26 AM

Yeah, it looks like it. I sent him a link to this thread. Thanks Bender. (removed my post from his thread; didn't want to steal your thunder

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MBender · #4 29th September 2010, 01:30 AM

You weren't stealing any thunder. It was my thread.

Vector · #5 29th September 2010, 02:14 AM

Ha, i didn't even notice that! Well done

---------- Post added at 09:14 PM CDT ---------- Previous post was at 08:32 PM CDT ----------

It seems there was some warning about this here in the forums, so i'm going to cross reference it, for the benefit (if any) of the readers: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=252117

**AdamW** · #6 29th September 2010, 06:56 PM

let's keep all the glibc issue discussion in http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=252117 .