Re: [SLUG] Heads up on SuSE Glibc update

From: Smitty (a.smitty@verizon.net)
Date: Sat Jul 20 2002 - 00:46:57 EDT


The version is 2.2.4 in each case. I think I should have upgraded by command
in the console. This could be a bug in the gui'd kpackage where if you don't
click all the "oks" on the error windows, it does not finish the job.
Smitty

On Friday 19 July 2002 22:06, you wrote:
> Are you sure it's not both glibc 2.1 and glibc 2.2? Most distros have
> both (as well as libc 5 for that matter) hanging around so that older
> packages can continue to run after a libc upgrade.
>
> Otherwise, you *might* have a corrupted RPM database. I'm very hesitant
> to suggest "rpm --rebuilddb" to fix it... BEWARE, THAR BE DRAGONS HERE!
>
> - Ian C. Blenke <icblenke@nks.net>
>
> On Fri, 2002-07-19 at 19:03, Smitty wrote:
> > I just updated my glibc as there was a buffer overflow possible on DNS
> > lookups. I run SuSE 7.3 and when I do a rpm -qi I get both the former
> > and new version. I ran updatedb and the same thing occured. Everything
> > seems to run fine.
> > Any comments?
> > Smitty



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