The most recent F14 updates damage my system

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 14:46:11 -0400,
  Tom Horsley <horsley1953 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> One thing that might work (but I wouldn't do it until the
> only alternative is reinstall from scratch) is to get on
> a working linux, download the updated (or downgraded) glibc
> rpm, use rpm2cpio to extract the files, then just replace
> the .so library files with the ones extracted from the
> rpm (while booted via live cd or rescue disk).
> 
> Yum would still think you have the busted glibc installed, but
> the actual shared libs would now be working versions and
> the system might boot.

That's what I had to do on one system. The machine won't boot off live usb
devices and the livecd image I had lying around had too old of a kernel
for me to run yum in a chroot.