rawhide report: 20080327 changes: glibc breaks xargs?

[John Summerfield]

David Nielsen wrote:
> 2008/3/28, Paul Dickson <paul at permanentmail.com>:
>> Starting with Thursday's updates, and continuing with today's, xargs is
>> given the following error:
>>
>> xargs: xargs.c:443: main: Assertion `bc_ctl.arg_max <= (131072-2048)'
>> failed.
>>
>> This start happening immediately after yum finish, and I was running
>> repomanage to clear some room.  I suspect the glibc update.
>>
>> I shortened the list of files by running through head into a new file,
>> but that shortened list would not work either.
> 
> 
> This is a known issue, our finest minds are working on it.. I hope.
>  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=439168
> 
> 
Good:-)
Bill and I await with bated breath.

Presumably one who's desperate can reinstall the previous version.

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