disaster! glibc, gcc4, FORTIFY_SOURCE

[Warren Togami]

Cameron Simpson wrote:
> At the risk of looking like a complete idiot, I'd like to report an
> apparently serious problem with the recent glibc etc stuff in (I think)
> Fedora-Development.
> 
> In an excess of zeal yesterday I upgraded some packages from the
> development set and now various programs report "buffer overflow detected"
> and like messages, and abort. These programs include bash and my usual
> mail reader. I've reverted my glibc to 2.3.4 from fedora-updates and
> things are a bit better but not totally fixed, so I figure I've still
> got some more packages to locate and revert:-(
> 

Umm, it sounds like you tried to install FC4 packages onto FC3.  DO NOT 
DO THAT.  That is totally unsupported and very likely the reason for 
things exploding.

Warren Togami
wtogami at redhat.com