RHEL3 missing library

[Dag Wieers]

On Fri, 2 Mar 2007, Michael Scully wrote:

> 	This is as "pure" of a RHEL3 installation as they come.  The only
> things installed on the box that don't come from RedHat are java rpms from
> Sun (which usually stick to the /usr/java directories), some commercial,
> script-based software for backup and recovery, Webmin, and an accounting
> application that relies on the JRE.  Everything else is just packages from
> RHEL3, maintained from up2date.  It was installed about 2 & 1/2 years ago.
> 
> 	RH Engineering thinks there is something broken from the libgcc
> installation.  I have to go back into the support queue to see what the next
> step is.
> 
> 	I was hoping to wait for RHEL5 to be shipped before I did a
> bare-metal install on them, but I might find it cleaner to put on RHEL4 now.
> I'm not sure.  They are 400 miles away from me, with no in-house technical
> staff.
> 
> 	So I can't easily remove the updated packages by overwriting them
> with their prior tape backup, but I assume the various configuration files
> will be.  I'm wondering if I can get them back to a state of grace prior to
> the havoc.  Suggestions?

I just checked for myself:

	[dag at lisse mrepo]# rpm -qp --provides /var/mrepo/rhel3as-i386/updates/*.rpm | grep GCC_4.2.0
	libgcc_s.so.1(GCC_4.2.0)  

Apparently something went wrong with one of their packages.

	[dag at lisse mrepo]# for rpm in /var/mrepo/rhel3as-i386/updates/*.rpm; do rpm -qp --nosignature --provides $rpm | grep -q 'GCC_4.2.0' && echo $rpm; done
	/var/mrepo/rhel3as-i386/updates/libgcc-3.2.3-56.i386.rpm

	[dag at lisse mrepo]# for rpm in /var/mrepo/rhel3as-i386/updates/*.rpm; do rpm -qpR --nosignature $rpm | grep -q 'GCC_4.2.0' && echo $rpm; done
	/var/mrepo/rhel3as-i386/updates/libstdc++-3.2.3-56.i386.rpm

So you're absolutely right.

Kind regards,
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