[ale] glibc recovery RH9

[bdowd at dentfirst.com (Brian J. Dowd)]

I recently had the *identical* error message on a single processor CPU 
running RH9.
I fdisked the /boot partition (100MB)
reinstalled the original RH9 CD's to repopulate the /boot partition,
then updated the entire mess with current rpm's via RHN.
It wasn't clean or pretty ... but RH works AOK now.
-Brian

(I hope you find a more intelligent way to solve this...)

>Glibc has been forced back to original RH9 version from the broken one, however, XFree86 and kernel updates were applied after the glibc update, so I get some errors on boot about X not starting.  I know what update packages were applied, so if I force the old packages to be reinstalled will I recover or is a simpler way to make the packages that were updated depend on the older glib?
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>The errors I get are for each exec that won't run is, for example:
>vim: relocation error: /lib/tls/libpthread.so.0: symbol __resp, version GLIBC_PRIVATE not defined in file libc.so.6 with link time reference
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>Is there some simpler way of dealing with this rather than forcing rpm to back down to older packages?  Or is this a newer updated kernel issue?  I have all the kernels available at boot.  Plus, I run hyperthreaded with a SMP kernel.  Thanks for your help since I am at an impass with my knowledge of how best to proceed.
>Dow Hurst
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