xsession error

[Jay Cliburn]

darrell pfeifer wrote:
> On 10/28/06, Jay Cliburn <jacliburn at bellsouth.net> wrote:
>> Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
>> > Le samedi 28 octobre 2006 à 13:08 -0500, Jay Cliburn a écrit :
>> >> Rob Andrews wrote:
>> >
>> >>> You should re-run the prelink job for the day. If it returns too
>> >>> quickly, remove the prelink cache and run it again.
>> >>>
>> >>> rm /etc/prelink.cache
>> >>> /etc/cron.daily/prelink
>> >>>
>> >>> After that you should be able to log in. I've found sudo doesn't 
>> work,
>> >>> but su starts working again.
>> >>>
>> >> Prelinking doesn't help on my x86_64 system.  I can su to a user, 
>> but I can't su
>> >> to root.
>> >
>> > The new glibc also kills postfix and probably other stuff too (x86_64
>>
>> What's the best way to revert something with as many tentacles as glibc?
> 
> I had the same problem and reverted glibc (using an x86_32 system.
> 
> Download an older rpm for both glibc and glibc.common. The FC6 version
> is recent enough not to cause dependency issues.
> 
> Then
> 
> rpm -Uvh glibc*.rpm --oldpackage
> 
> If you have the glibc devel and headers stuff then you'll have to
> download it or just force it temporarily until the fixed glibc comes
> out.

Thanks.  That did it for me.