----- 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.