windoze-like nightmares with rpm upgrade of glibc on RH9 : LinuxQuestions.org time based Linux archive: “VladStar[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by gill1109 [/i]
[B]I’d like to put on record what was the cause of this bug. It came about through inadvertently trying to upgrade an i686 rpm with an older version of glibc to an i386 rpm with a newer version. It turns out that this is ‘not done’.
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Thank you for detailed explanations, they helped a lot ! Here is the solution, that I have applied yesterday and restored my system:
1) insert CD RedHat 9.0 disk 1 into CDROM
2) boot computer from CD
3) type ‘linux rescue’ in the installation prompt
4) answer few questions about language and network settings, then press ‘Continue’ when asked about old system mounting to /mnt/sysimage
5) when you get shell prompt, type ‘mount’ to check if CD is mounted to /mnt/source and old system is mounted to /mnt/sysimage
6) type ‘rpm -ivh –force –root /mnt/sysimage /mnt/source/RedHat/RPMS/glibc-2.3.2-11.9.i686.rpm /mnt/source/RedHat/RPMS/glibc-common-2.3.2-11.9.i386.rpm’ to reinstall original glibc
7) type ‘chroot /mnt/sysimage’ to che”