new rawhide glibc

[Horst H. von Brand]

Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-05-15 at 10:00 -0700, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> > With the next push you'll see the first new glibc version for rawhide
> > (2.8.90-1).  This version has quite a few changes, most prominently
> > changes to getaddrinfo.
> > 
> > The new implementation should be faster since it parallelizes DNS
> > lookups and avoids code duplication in many other cases.  But the DNS
> > optimization is also what I'm a bit concerned about.  I tested the code
> > with a local bind daemon and all works well.  What I haven't done is
> > testing it with other DNS servers.
> > 
> > Everybody should look out for changes in the host name resolution.
> > There shouldn't be any but who knows.
> > 
> > Those who are using DNS servers other than bind might want to give the
> > code bounding.  Especially also the fallback code to issue lookups with
> > TCP (you can force this by setting the RES_USEVC bit in _res.options,
> > see <resolv.h>).
> 
> This glibc made it into the chroot we use to produce rawhide, which
> promptly started causing invalid pointer free errors when yum was
> called:
> 
> *** glibc detected *** /usr/bin/python: free(): invalid pointer:
> 0x00007fffa6ead9ab ***
> 
> Granted, this was a chroot on a FC6 box, not sure if that's going to
> "taint" things, but I had to roll back glibc in order to get a rawhide
> compose going.

I get lots of ugly messages scrolling by starting X, and no X.

i686, dual core.
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