[CentOS] glibc-2.5-58.el5_6.2.i686 broken?

Sun Apr 17 17:11:04 UTC 2011
David C. Miller <millerdc at fusion.gat.com>

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Eero Volotinen" <eero.volotinen at iki.fi>
> To: "CentOS mailing list" <centos at centos.org>
> Sent: Sunday, April 17, 2011 8:27:45 AM
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] glibc-2.5-58.el5_6.2.i686 broken?
> 
> 2011/4/17 Leonard den Ottolander <leonard at den.ottolander.nl>:
> > Hi Akemi,
> >
> > On Sat, 2011-04-16 at 18:18 -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote:
> >> See also:
> >>
> >> http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=30939&forum=37
> >
> > Please don't take this the wrong way, but not everybody reads the
> > forums. Perhaps it is possible to give a heads up about such
> > breakage
> > via the CentOS general or announce mailing list before such a
> > broken
> > package is released into the wild? That would actually make it an
> > advantage to swim down stream :-) .
> >
> > I would like to advice everyone to avoid this update by adding
> > exclude=glibc*2.5-58.el5_6.2 nscd*2.5-58.el5_6.2
> > to their updates channel config - added it to base just to be sure
> > -
> > until upstream releases a fix.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Leonard.
> 
> Does this also affects grub? if so, then this is very critical, it
> can
> trash my rhel installations :/
> 
> --
> Eero

I have updated about a dozen systems and rebooted without issue. I don't think it has anything to do with glibc.

David.