The most recent F14 updates damage my system

[Panu Matilainen]

On Tue, 28 Sep 2010, Tom Horsley wrote:

> On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 14:38:51 -0400
> Erinn Looney-Triggs wrote:
>
>> Any other alternatives?
>
> 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.

Various alternatives exist... the rescue image has a working ftp-client so 
you can download known-good versions of glibc packages from there and then 
run rpm, eg:

rpm -Uvh --oldpackage --root /mnt/sysimage </path/to/glibc*rpms>

 	- Panu -