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PostPosted: Sun Feb 06, 2011 11:11 am    Post subject: WARNING: prelink and glibc-2.13 update Reply with quote

Hello!

Just wanted to warn all those who are just updated to glibc-2.13 and using prelink.

I got everywhere a segfault...

more here:

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=885429
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 06, 2011 1:02 pm    Post subject: Omg Reply with quote

Thank you very much to give this info. I was f*** up. I didn't see something like this before. I can't even chroot to fix "whatever it is".
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 06, 2011 1:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hi,

thank you for the information. Hopefully, I'm still in amd64 stable branch, but I hope that'll be fixed soon, because I like prelink :]
Also, I noticed that there's an opened bug here.

@seqizz : maybe you should see that opened bug, there's instructions to undo prelinking from the liveCD.
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 06, 2011 1:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks @Yuu,

Even if i had to force my one friend to compile a binary prelink package with -march=atom cflags. After a successful prelink -ua, i guess everything is ok. :)
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 06, 2011 1:59 pm    Post subject: WARNING: updating to glibc-2.13 w/prelink hoses system Reply with quote

If you're running a ~ arch, DO NOT update to glibc-2.13 if you have prelink installed!!! It will completely hose your box!!! I just spent several hours trying to recover from this bug https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=353814

If you want the new glibc, you must first uninstall prelink or if you want to keep prelink, you need to mask the new glibc until one or the other is fixed.

When I updated yesterday morning glibc was in the queue. It installed without issues. I then 'emerge -eavND @system' to rebuild against it. Halfway through the emerge, portage crashed, bash segfaulted and my KDE DE ceased functioning. I tried to ssh into my box, but it was impossible because all of my network connections ceased functioning. The only way to get out of X was a hard reboot, but then all three of my kernels panicked just after leaving the grub splash.

I was finally able to regain control of my machine by booting into a rescue disc and following the instructions posted in comment #3 in the bug report I linked to. I had to chroot into my box to uninstall prelink, before I was able to regain control and reboot back into my system.

Please be aware that this is a serious issue.

You have been forewarned!

Ciao

Edit: apparently this isn't the only distro to be affected by this bug. Arch Linux is as well, as evidenced by these posts: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=112510 and https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=884397#p884397
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 07, 2011 2:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks for the heads up and leading the way :P
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 07, 2011 6:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I tried to get the committer of the new glibc to mask the package immediately before I figured out it was caused by the interaction with prelink

It's more than a day on and still nothing has been done to stop people from hosing their systems

All it would take is a !sys-devel/prelink in the DEPEND of the new glibc or a !sys-lib/glibc-2.13 in the prelink builds

It's not rocket science - I wonder how many folks have hosed their system because of this?
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 07, 2011 7:29 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Wow --- that was scary!

Thanks you so much for giving the link to the workaround so quickly.
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 07, 2011 8:16 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

glibc-2.13 also breaks postfix for me...

Feb 7 08:02:18 mih postfix/master[11799]: daemon started -- version 2.8.0, configuration /etc/postfix
Feb 7 08:02:18 mih postfix/qmgr[11803]: A82474006E: from=<root@xxxx.xxx.xxx>, size=14500, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Feb 7 08:02:18 mih postfix/local[11805]: fatal: unable to determine open file limit
Feb 7 08:02:19 mih postfix/master[11799]: warning: process /usr/lib/postfix/local pid 11805 exit status 1
Feb 7 08:02:19 mih postfix/master[11799]: warning: /usr/lib/postfix/local: bad command startup -- throttling
Feb 7 08:03:19 mih postfix/local[11826]: fatal: unable to determine open file limit
Feb 7 08:03:20 mih postfix/master[11799]: warning: process /usr/lib/postfix/local pid 11826 exit status 1
Feb 7 08:03:20 mih postfix/master[11799]: warning: /usr/lib/postfix/local: bad command startup -- throttling
Feb 7 08:04:20 mih postfix/local[11841]: fatal: unable to determine open file limit
Feb 7 08:04:21 mih postfix/master[11799]: warning: process /usr/lib/postfix/local pid 11841 exit status 1
Feb 7 08:04:21 mih postfix/master[11799]: warning: /usr/lib/postfix/local: bad command startup -- throttling
Feb 7 08:05:21 mih postfix/local[11861]: fatal: unable to determine open file limit
Feb 7 08:05:22 mih postfix/master[11799]: warning: process /usr/lib/postfix/local pid 11861 exit status 1
Feb 7 08:05:22 mih postfix/master[11799]: warning: /usr/lib/postfix/local: bad command startup -- throttling
Feb 7 08:06:22 mih postfix/local[11868]: fatal: unable to determine open file limit
Feb 7 08:06:23 mih postfix/master[11799]: warning: process /usr/lib/postfix/local pid 11868 exit status 1
Feb 7 08:06:23 mih postfix/master[11799]: warning: /usr/lib/postfix/local: bad command startup -- throttling
Feb 7 08:07:23 mih postfix/local[12215]: fatal: unable to determine open file limit
Feb 7 08:07:24 mih postfix/master[11799]: warning: process /usr/lib/postfix/local pid 12215 exit status 1
Feb 7 08:07:24 mih postfix/master[11799]: warning: /usr/lib/postfix/local: bad command startup -- throttling
Feb 7 08:08:24 mih postfix/local[21471]: fatal: unable to determine open file limit
Feb 7 08:08:25 mih postfix/master[11799]: warning: process /usr/lib/postfix/local pid 21471 exit status 1
Feb 7 08:08:25 mih postfix/master[11799]: warning: /usr/lib/postfix/local: bad command startup -- throttling
Feb 7 08:09:25 mih postfix/local[22152]: fatal: unable to determine open file limit
Feb 7 08:09:26 mih postfix/master[11799]: warning: process /usr/lib/postfix/local pid 22152 exit status 1
Feb 7 08:09:26 mih postfix/master[11799]: warning: /usr/lib/postfix/local: bad command startup -- throttling
Feb 7 08:10:26 mih postfix/local[23152]: fatal: unable to determine open file limit
Feb 7 08:10:27 mih postfix/master[11799]: warning: process /usr/lib/postfix/local pid 23152 exit status 1
Feb 7 08:10:27 mih postfix/master[11799]: warning: /usr/lib/postfix/local: bad command startup -- throttling
Feb 7 08:11:27 mih postfix/local[23861]: fatal: unable to determine open file limit
Feb 7 08:11:28 mih postfix/master[11799]: warning: process /usr/lib/postfix/local pid 23861 exit status 1
Feb 7 08:11:28 mih postfix/master[11799]: warning: /usr/lib/postfix/local: bad command startup -- throttling
Feb 7 08:11:55 mih postfix/postfix-script[24050]: stopping the Postfix mail system
Feb 7 08:11:55 mih postfix/master[11799]: terminating on signal 15


reverting glibc back to 2.12.2 and problem is gone.
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 07, 2011 9:33 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Read this post too late..now I have a kernel panic with some mentioning of ld.so-2.13
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 07, 2011 10:15 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Etrans wrote:
Read this post too late..now I have a kernel panic with some mentioning of ld.so-2.13


Don't panic (unlike your kernel)

1) Boot from CD
2) mount your root partition to /mnt/gentoo
3) run: /mnt/gentoo/usr/sbin/prelink -u /mnt/gentoo/bin/bash
4) chroot into your install: chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash
5) Switch of prelink: prelink -au
6) Unmerge prelink: emerge --unmerge prelink

Alternatively instead of 6) you could downgrade glibc and mask 2.13
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 07, 2011 10:48 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I run a pure ~x86 box. After upgrade to glibc-2.13, skype segfaults immediately at start-up. Please help! My wife is worried!

Is it possible to downgrade glibc in any way? Higher computer-related things can wait, I urgently need skype.
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 07, 2011 10:57 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

grozin wrote:
I run a pure ~x86 box. After upgrade to glibc-2.13, skype segfaults immediately at start-up. Please help! My wife is worried!

Is it possible to downgrade glibc in any way? Higher computer-related things can wait, I urgently need skype.


there is: here

im trying to recompile whole system with new glibc to see if it fixed my postfix issue, but it will take a while...
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 07, 2011 11:04 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Even for testing it's a very bad QA, in particular for glibc.
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 07, 2011 11:12 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

vdracula wrote:
Even for testing it's a very bad QA, in particular for glibc.


The ebuild was marked ~unstable for x86 amd64 ppc ppc64 spark ia64 sh & s390

I very much doubt if all these targets were tested especially the latter; I doubt very many people have access to a mainframe to do testing
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 07, 2011 11:21 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

FireBurn wrote:
Etrans wrote:
Read this post too late..now I have a kernel panic with some mentioning of ld.so-2.13


Don't panic (unlike your kernel)

1) Boot from CD
2) mount your root partition to /mnt/gentoo
3) run: /mnt/gentoo/usr/sbin/prelink -u /mnt/gentoo/bin/bash
4) chroot into your install: chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash
5) Switch of prelink: prelink -au
6) Unmerge prelink: emerge --unmerge prelink

Alternatively instead of 6) you could downgrade glibc and mask 2.13


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PostPosted: Mon Feb 07, 2011 11:27 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

FireBurn wrote:
vdracula wrote:
Even for testing it's a very bad QA, in particular for glibc.


The ebuild was marked ~unstable for x86 amd64 ppc ppc64 spark ia64 sh & s390

I very much doubt if all these targets were tested especially the latter; I doubt very many people have access to a mainframe to do testing



That's true, but at least for the very popular archs it could be tested. For instance, x86, amd64 (and if, ppc/ppc64).
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 07, 2011 3:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yes, three of my boxes were running overnight and were screwed. There is no need to unmerge prelink, though, just make sure you have
Code:
PRELINKING=""

in your /etc/conf.d/prelink.

I assume most of us want to keep prelink despite this little @#$%.
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 07, 2011 6:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Merged from here.
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 07, 2011 8:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I just wonder if prelink is still usefull.
Nowedays we some linker optimizations like: --as-needed, hash-style=gnu, O1.
Also there was something like a useflag kdeenablefinal.

These basically make sure there is less to link and that linking goes faster.
So the befit of prelink is smaller these days.

I just wonder if prelink is still worthwhile?
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 07, 2011 8:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Simon196405 wrote:
I just wonder if prelink is still usefull.
Nowedays we some linker optimizations like: --as-needed, hash-style=gnu, O1.
Also there was something like a useflag kdeenablefinal.

These basically make sure there is less to link and that linking goes faster.
So the befit of prelink is smaller these days.

I just wonder if prelink is still worthwhile?


No. It's not worth it on modern systems.

http://lwn.net/Articles/341244/
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 07, 2011 8:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Jaglover wrote:
Yes, three of my boxes were running overnight and were screwed. There is no need to unmerge prelink, though, just make sure you have
Code:
PRELINKING=""

in your /etc/conf.d/prelink.

I assume most of us want to keep prelink despite this little @#$%.



thanx this helped.
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 07, 2011 10:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

vdracula wrote:
Even for testing it's a very bad QA, in particular for glibc.


Yes it sucks, but prelink is run by a cron job. Until prelink is run, everything appears to work. No amount of testing would catch it unless the cron job happened to trigger.
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 08, 2011 12:04 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Cripes! That was scary. 8O
Thanks for the solution. I'd have never figured this one out.

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PostPosted: Tue Feb 08, 2011 12:19 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Welcome to unstable, everyone. :)
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