bug#30537: glibc 2.26 refuses to run on CentOS 6.8

Hello, Ricardo Wurmus skribis: > I have a bad day. After the upgrade to glibc 2.26 none of the > Guix-installed software runs on the HPC cluster running CentOS 6.8. Bah. :-( > The glibc 2.26 expects a minimum kernel version of 3.x on x86_64, but > CentOS 6.8

bug#30537: glibc 2.26 refuses to run on CentOS 6.8

Hi Ricardo, Ricardo Wurmus writes: > Ricardo Wurmus writes: > >> Here’s a patch to graft the glibc to apply the patch to allow the 2.6.32 >> kernel. I’m going to apply this at work now. > > That patch had a couple of problems.

bug#30537: glibc 2.26 refuses to run on CentOS 6.8

Ricardo Wurmus writes: > Leo Famulari writes: > >>> For future updates to the glibc we would have to re-evaluate if the >>> current RHEL 6.x kernel still supports all features the glibc expects, >>> and decide once more if we can justify

bug#30537: glibc 2.26 refuses to run on CentOS 6.8

Leo Famulari writes: >> For future updates to the glibc we would have to re-evaluate if the >> current RHEL 6.x kernel still supports all features the glibc expects, >> and decide once more if we can justify patching glibc to allow that one >> particular kernel version. > >

bug#30537: glibc 2.26 refuses to run on CentOS 6.8

On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 01:34:27PM +0100, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > The only reason for moving the lower bound to Linux 3.2 is that 2.6 has > reached EOL. This allows the glibc developers to assume certain > kernel features and simplify their code. > > The RHEL kernels are special, though, in that

bug#30537: glibc 2.26 refuses to run on CentOS 6.8

Leo Famulari writes: > On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 08:22:29PM -0500, Leo Famulari wrote: >> My questions are, how does the glibc team choose the minimum kernel >> version? What could go wrong if we apply this patch and somebody uses >> Guix on a pre-3.2.0 kernel? >> >> Perhaps

bug#30537: glibc 2.26 refuses to run on CentOS 6.8

On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 08:22:29PM -0500, Leo Famulari wrote: > My questions are, how does the glibc team choose the minimum kernel > version? What could go wrong if we apply this patch and somebody uses > Guix on a pre-3.2.0 kernel? > > Perhaps they simply chose to not support glibc on any

bug#30537: glibc 2.26 refuses to run on CentOS 6.8

On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 07:46:02PM +0100, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > Hi Guix, > > I have a bad day. After the upgrade to glibc 2.26 none of the > Guix-installed software runs on the HPC cluster running CentOS 6.8. > > The glibc 2.26 expects a minimum kernel version of 3.x on x86_64, but > CentOS

bug#30537: glibc 2.26 refuses to run on CentOS 6.8

On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 07:46:02PM +0100, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > The NixOS developers patch glibc to make sure that all software still > runs on Linux 2.6.32: > > > https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/master/pkgs/development/libraries/glibc/allow-kernel-2.6.32.patch > > Can we

bug#30537: glibc 2.26 refuses to run on CentOS 6.8

Hi Ricardo, > Does this work even though the official minimum kernel version for glibc > 2.26 is 3.2.0? I think so, BUT the patchset looks pretty similar to what would happen if you specified the configure flag except for one spot. So maybe Nix found out some ill effects. The most worrying part

bug#30537: glibc 2.26 refuses to run on CentOS 6.8

Hi Danny, > Can you try just passing --enable-kernel=2.6.32 to "configure" of glibc > instead? > > It should set the minimal version without any weird patching. Does this work even though the official minimum kernel version for glibc 2.26 is 3.2.0? > But newer glibc has moved a lot of kernel