I see on ftp.suse.com that they have the following rpms for glibc and glibc-devel for SuSe 9.1: glibc-2.3.3-93.i686.rpm glibc-devel-2.3.3-97.i686.rpm glibc-2.3.3-98.i586.rpm glibc-devel-2.3.3-98.i586.rpm I downloaded them all and looked at the file contents of each. I definitely have installed the i586 versions of glibc installed on my machine. So, can I just do rpm -Uvh glibc-2.3.3-93.i686.rpm glibc-devel-2.3.3-97.i686.rpm Will this work? I am worried about screwing up the system beyond repair... Osho On 11/10/06, Osho GG wrote:

Hi,

Has anyone ever dared to upgraded GLIBC using rpm/apt? How does the process go? What to do if something goes wrong?

The issue I am having is that the glibc version in my SuSE 9.1 install seems to support only linuxthreads and not NPTL. Based on some google searches, this could be because I may have i586 version of glibc installed instead of i686. So, how do I go about upgrading from i586 glibc version to i686 glibc version?

Suse downloads page at novell.com showed me that there was the following glibc upgrade for SuSE 9.1:

Recommended update for glibc 01/10/05

Name Size glibc-2.3.3-98.38.i586.rpm 1.3 MB (1461996) glibc-2.3.3-98.38.i686.rpm 2.6 MB (2806815) glibc-devel-2.3.3-98.38.i586.rpm 6.4 MB (6805783) glibc-devel-2.3.3-98.38.i686.rpm 9.9 MB (10481311)

rpm query about glibc does not tell me which version of glibc (i586 or i686), do I have?

% rpm -q glibc glibc-2.3.3-98

% rpm -qi glibc Name : glibc Relocations: (not relocatable) Version : 2.3.3 Vendor: SuSE Linux AG, Nuernberg, Germany Release : 98 Build Date: Mon 05 Apr 2004 05:26:15 PM PDT Install date: Wed 13 Oct 2004 10:35:03 AM PDT Build Host: frobenius.suse.de Group : System/Libraries Source RPM: glibc-2.3.3-98.src.rpm Size : 3496068 License: GPL, LGPL Signature : DSA/SHA1, Mon 05 Apr 2004 05:32:16 PM PDT, Key ID a84edae89c800aca Packager : http://www.suse.de/feedback URL : http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/libc.html Summary : The standard shared libraries (from the GNU C Library) Description : The GNU C Library provides the most important standard libraries used by nearly all programs: the stndard C library, the standard math library and the POSIX thread library. Without these libraries, the system is not functional. Distribution: SuSE Linux 9.1 (i586)

Also, getconf seems to indicate that I have linuxthreads.

% getconf GNU_LIBPTHREAD_VERSION linuxthreads-0.10

Also libc.so.6 shows it has linuxthreads and not NPTL.

% /lib/libc.so.6 GNU C Library stable release version 2.3.3 (20040325), by Roland McGrath et al. Copyright (C) 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. Configured for i586-suse-linux. Compiled by GNU CC version 3.3.3 (SuSE Linux). Compiled on a Linux 2.6.4 system on 2004-04-05. Available extensions: GNU libio by Per Bothner crypt add-on version 2.1 by Michael Glad and others linuxthreads-0.10 by Xavier Leroy GNU Libidn by Simon Josefsson NoVersion patch for broken glibc 2.0 binaries BIND-8.2.3-T5B libthread_db work sponsored by Alpha Processor Inc NIS(YP)/NIS+ NSS modules 0.19 by Thorsten Kukuk Report bugs using the `glibcbug' script to .

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

thanks a lot, Osho

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Has anyone ever dared to upgraded GLIBC using rpm/apt? How does the process go? What to do if something goes wrong?

Reinstall from backup using a rescue disk. Notice that everything on the system uses that library, so that you break everything... Look up these threads in the archive: Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 01:27:15 +0100 From: Philipp Thomas To: Subject: Re: [SLE] libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3) and SuSE 8.1 Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 06:48:40 +0200 From: Thorsten Kukuk To: suse Subject: Re: [SLE] Upgrading glibc Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 16:46:29 -0800 From: Tony Alfrey To: Subject: Re: [SLE] Problem getting a new glibc to compile Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 13:50:53 +0100 From: Philipp Thomas To: Subject: Re: [SLE] Recompiling glibc - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFFVSLrtTMYHG2NR9URAomFAJ9rsduiJhLIuXWZuDC12DqTK2VnLgCdGo7y eRj2GDEgrzT5mpB+Xu//yGw= =ZP9x -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2006-11-10 at 15:50 -0800, Osho GG wrote: ...

rpm query about glibc does not tell me which version of glibc (i586 or i686), do I have?

% rpm -q glibc glibc-2.3.3-98

Try this (it worked for 8.1): rpm -qa --qf %{DISTRIBUTION}\\\ %{NAME}\\\n | egrep '\<(glibc|db)(-devel)?$' - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFFVmzGtTMYHG2NR9URAtlYAJwK3Fkix2V/bfiq+uFWBiNa47D6FACeIfky l0AqZplxtW7//DDyk3b8qT8= =vcAd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org