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PostPosted: Tue Feb 08, 2011 1:14 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

WOW I am so glad I removed prelink last month... was causing issues with 64bit 3D applications. prelink would be linking in the 32bit libs from nvidia...
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 08, 2011 1:20 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

SoLoR wrote:
glibc-2.13 also breaks postfix for me...
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reverting glibc back to 2.12.2 and problem is gone.


Same here. May I ask how you downgraded? I read the various guides and just like the ebuild safety-check they all contain unhelpful panic warnings without actually saying what the problems are.
I haven't emerged anything since glibc, so is it just a matter of editing the 2.12.2 ebuild to disable the check, updating the manifest & emerging?

thanks.
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 08, 2011 5:54 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

you can run
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ROOT="/../" emerge -av1 =glibc-2.12.2

to get around the downgrade check.
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 08, 2011 6:00 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

After restoring my system back to normal, did a prelink -au.

Since then, everything o.k. here. No problems at all.

One have to be carefull with all kind of optimizations...
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 08, 2011 7:08 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

NightMonkey wrote:
Welcome to unstable, everyone. :)
it's well beyond unstable, in that case.

i can understand an apps failing on unstable, but the whole system ? that stuff belongs to hard masked packages.

whoever is responsible for that critical system component really messed up.
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 08, 2011 10:01 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

dirtyepic wrote:
you can run
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ROOT="/../" emerge -av1 =glibc-2.12.2

to get around the downgrade check.


Nope, didn't work for me. Could be me using zsh though. Anyway just editing the ebuild and rebuilding worked fine, postfix is back up & running.
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 08, 2011 11:31 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

yoshi314 wrote:
NightMonkey wrote:
Welcome to unstable, everyone. :)
it's well beyond unstable, in that case.

i can understand an apps failing on unstable, but the whole system ? that stuff belongs to hard masked packages.

whoever is responsible for that critical system component really messed up.


Considering I gave a heads up to the committer within hours of the ebuild going live I'm angry at the length of time to took for something to be done

I got an email back with in an hour telling me that email wasn't the way to communicate bugs
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 08, 2011 3:55 pm    Post subject: to go back to glibc-2.12.2 use this Reply with quote

Sanity check is in /usr/portage/sys-libs/glibc/files/eblits/pkg_setup.eblit

So set # like here:

# eerror "Sanity check to keep you from breaking your system:"
# eerror " Downgrading glibc is not supported and a sure way to destruction"
# die "aborting to save your system"

ebuild /usr/portage/sys-libs/glibc/sys-libs/glibc-2.12.2.ebuild digest

echo "=sys-libs/glibc-2.13*" >> /etc/portage/package.mask

emerge -av1 =sys-libs/glibc-2.12.2

But i think that will be a bad option.

I will try it with complete rebuild on a 64bit environment in chroot.

Don't forget to enable the check again in /usr/portage/sys-libs/glibc/files/eblits/pkg_setup.eblit and do a ebuild /usr/portage/sys-libs/glibc/sys-libs/glibc-2.12.2.ebuild digest.
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 08, 2011 7:36 pm    Post subject: Re: WARNING: updating to glibc-2.13 w/prelink hoses system Reply with quote

Yes, I can confirm this. It's working (the segfaults). :evil:

Odysseus wrote:
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


---> afk for several hours. Downgrading glibc.
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 08, 2011 7:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

FireBurn wrote:


I got an email back with in an hour telling me that email wasn't the way to communicate bugs


Well, for a bug of this magnitude i'd probably suggest bugzilla plus email plus irc plus a process server... :)

Granted devs have day jobs too, but escalating this was not inappropriate...
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 08, 2011 9:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I didn't figure out how to downgrade glibc because of sanity check.

So I deinstalled prelink temporary. I hope there will be a patch soon.
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 08, 2011 11:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

HolgerH wrote:
dirtyepic wrote:
you can run
Code:
ROOT="/../" emerge -av1 =glibc-2.12.2

to get around the downgrade check.


Nope, didn't work for me. Could be me using zsh though. Anyway just editing the ebuild and rebuilding worked fine, postfix is back up & running.


Me neither actually. I guess portage is smart enough to rewrite it to "/".
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 09, 2011 1:10 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Is there any fix for postfix with this glibc? I've recompiled a fair bit of my system since the glibc upgrade and I'm afraid to revert to the previous version of glibc.

Incidentally, wouldn't finally updating the version of kernel-headers in Portage and then recompiling glibc make for a more reliable system for those running recent kernels?
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 10, 2011 10:37 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

crculver wrote:
Is there any fix for postfix with this glibc? I've recompiled a fair bit of my system since the glibc upgrade and I'm afraid to revert to the previous version of glibc.

Incidentally, wouldn't finally updating the version of kernel-headers in Portage and then recompiling glibc make for a more reliable system for those running recent kernels?


Finish recompiling against the new glibc, but make sure that prelink is either disabled or removed from your system. It's far safer to just finish recompiling than downgrading to the previous version (unless you're willing to risk breaking your box). I know I wouldn't risk it myself, despite some of the posts here to the contrary.

Fixing the bugs with this new glibc release is probably one of the highest priorities for the maintainers at the moment. I noticed on bugzilla that they've setup a tracker to focus on eliminating them. So I'm sure that before long we'll either see an update to glibc or to the packages affected by it. Unless you can write code and are willing to contribute the only thing to do is wait and have patience.

Updating the kernel headers only matters if there is a new feature, driver or supported processor in the newer kernel that you need that isn't included in what you have installed. I've gone for well over a year before without updating kernel headers, while updating my kernel sources with each new release, with no negative effects. Where you really run into problems is if you update your headers to a newer version then your kernel sources. I did that once and found I couldn't compile a kernel until I updated my sources.

Most of the time when I see a new kernel header package in portage, I'll mask it until there is a gcc or glibc update, then unmask and recompile my world against both. This way I kill two birds with one stone. Who wants to be constantly recompiling their entire system? Not me.

I hope this helps

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PostPosted: Thu Feb 10, 2011 6:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

So far I haven't noticed any problems on my 1250sth packages system, so it seems to be rather safe with the known exceptions.
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 14, 2011 10:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Prelink is fixed now in glibc-2.13-r1 as per this bug report https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=353814

I just resynced, updated to the new glibc version, reinstalled and enabled prelink, ran prelink -amR, and all worked as expected. I rebooted my system and it was noticeably faster as was starting KDE on my five year old ~x86 single-core Centrino notebook.

So it appears this has been resolved and I can confirm that things are back to normal now.

The issue appears to have been caused by the omission of this patch that RedHat had included in their build of glibc, that wasn't included in the officially released version. http://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commit;h=25b3aada

You can read more about it here on the Arch Linux forums https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/22656

So the OP can now mark this thread as "solved" and we can all go back to using prelink as before.

I hope this helps,

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PostPosted: Mon Feb 14, 2011 11:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Sadly skype is still broken so I had to dowgrade glibc everywhere :(
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 15, 2011 6:48 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

FYI: The issue with postfix (fatal: unable to determine open file limit) seems to be a kernel issue:

https://bugs.gentoo.org/354041 and http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=aa5bd67dcfdf9af34c7fa36ebc87d4e1f7e91873

Strange, though, that the bug concides with an upgrade of glibc to 2.13. I will stay with <glibc-2.13 until the kernel patch arrives in portage.

Christopher

(Hugh, my first post since several years here...)
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 18, 2011 12:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

oh man. and I thought this was "just me". lol!
thank you, for this thread...
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 26, 2011 9:10 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Kernel 2.6.37-gentoo-r1 now contains the Patch which should fix the issue wie Postfix. Will now upgrade to the new kernel and glibc... Hope it works...

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PostPosted: Thu Mar 03, 2011 2:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

SoLoR wrote:

im trying to recompile whole system with new glibc to see if it fixed my postfix issue, but it will take a while...


any luck SoLoR? same issue here!
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 03, 2011 6:40 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

With 2.6.37-gentoo-r1 and glibc-2.13-r1 postfix now works for me.

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