The most recent F14 updates damage my system

[Paul Frields]

On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 5:31 AM, Joachim Backes
<joachim.backes at rhrk.uni-kl.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Sombody has seen this:
>
> I applied the recent updates for F14 (most are coming from
> updates-testing repo).
>
> Then I rebooted: system still runs.
>
> Then, after some time (say about 1/2 to 1 hour), getting zillions of
> crash messages (in /var/log/messages), for example
>
> Sep 28 10:25:02 eule kernel: Process 17042(abrt-hook-ccpp) has
> RLIMIT_CORE set to 1
> Sep 28 10:25:02 eule kernel: Aborting core
> Sep 28 10:25:02 eule kernel: eu-unstrip[17043]: segfault at 962dfc ip
> 00945689 sp bf9ad844 error 7 in ld-2.12.90.so[942000+20000].
>
> I tried to reboot with ctrl+alt+del: nothing happens.
>
> Pressing reset, going into grub: system starts booting, than hangs.
>
> My impression: the *glibc* or *glibc-common* update make my system buggy.
>
> Restoring my system, then updating without the updates-testing repo: No
> more such messages in /var/log/messages.

I also get a kernel panic after last night's updates.  Here's the
relevant section of boot messages. I'm transcribing this and will try
to be careful with my typing. ;-)

* * *
dracut: Switching root
init[1]: segfault at 3df641fbf8 ip 0000003df62033c7 sp
00007fff2e7bf5f0 error 7 in ld-2.12.90.so[3df6200000+1f000]
init used greatest stack depth: 3880 bytes left
Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
Pid: 1, comm: init Not tainted 2.6.35.4-28.fc14.x86_64 #1
Call Trace:
 [<ffffffff8149b08b>] panic+0x8b/0x110
 [<ffffffff81054a89>] do_exit+0x7b/0x7d0
 [<ffffffff81055474>] do_group_exit+0x88/0xb6
 [<ffffffff810628f4>] get_signal_to_deliver+0x3d6/0x3f5
 [<ffffffff81008f91>] do_signal+0x72/0x690
 [<ffffffff8149b178>] ? printk+0x68/0x70
 [<ffffffff81033874>] ? bad_area_access_error+0x47/0x4e
 [<ffffffff8107f15e>] ? lockdep_sys_exit+0x20/0x76
 [<ffffffff810095f0>] do_notify_resume+0x28,0x86
 [<ffffffff8149e39b>] retint_signal+0x4d/0x92
panic occurred, switching back to text console
* * *

-- 
Paul