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 -- Keith Lofstrom [email protected] Voice (503)-520-1993 KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your Ideas in Silicon" Design Contracting in Bipolar and CMOS - Analog, Digital, and Scan ICs
