[xymon] fedora upgrade from 13 to 14 crashed hobbitd_rrd

[Jason Chambers]

*face palm*


OK, Let's see if I can figure out how to downgrade glibc. 

Note: not a linux user :)


Thanks for this information guys.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Xymon User in Richmond [mailto:hobbit at epperson.homelinux.net] 
Sent: November-11-10 6:48 PM
To: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: Re: [xymon] fedora upgrade from 13 to 14 crashed hobbitd_rrd

On Thu, November 11, 2010 17:06, Henrik Størner wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Nov 2010 20:45:24 +0000, Henrik "Størner" wrote:
>
>> In <018528ADB17A124D84DD0D081A4C82D22B5C61FB at exchange.geosoft.com>
>> Jason Chambers <Jason.Chambers at geosoft.com> writes:
>>
>>> - Program crashed
>>
>>> Fatal signal caught!
>>
>>> Anyone know how I can resolve this issue? The tail end of 
>>> rrd-status.log lo= oks like this:
>>
>>> 2010-11-11 14:43:34 RRD error updating 
>>> /home/hobbit/data/rrd/xxx.yyy.com/di= sk,H.rrd from 192.168.0.0: 
>>> This  RRD was created on another architecture
>>
>>> The funny thing is, the architecture never changed. I just upgraded 
>>> Fedora = Core from version 13 to 14.
>>
>> Could it be an upgrade from a 32-bit to 64-bit version of the RRD 
>> library?
>
> I think the problem has been found, but it might be difficult to fix.
> Look at the Bugzilla discussion in the Fedora mailing list:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=638477#c29
>
> Apparently the glibc folks implemented a new version of the glibc 
> routine that does memory-copies fin Fedora 14. And unlike the old 
> version, this one corrupts data when copying between memory areas that overlap.
>

Interesting bug thread.  So the new glibc broke Flash (and rrd), and who knows what else.  And even Linus Torvalds thinks it's wrong and unnecessary.  And the glibc team seem to be adamant about not changing it.

BSD, anyone?


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