GLIBC rollback?

[denimderek]

I'm running a Linux server with Qmail/Vpopmail, Apache, BIND, MySQL and several other services. I recently updated glibc to glibc-2.3.2-27.9.7, which didn't necessarily BREAK Qmail, but it has started causing some problems. When I start Qmail, I get this error:


Incorrectly built binary which accesses errno or h_errno directly. Needs to be fixed.


I'm trying to rollback glibc to 2.2.5-44. If I try it from up2date, the system crashes and reboots. If I try it using rpm -Uvh --force, I get a segmentation fault


[root@ns1 glibc]# pwd
/home/derek/glibc
[root@ns1 glibc]# ls -salt
total 16208
4 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jul 28 18:51 .
4 drwxr-xr-x 11 derek derek 4096 Jul 28 18:51 ..
10940 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11183168 Jul 28 18:40 glibc-common-2.2.5-44.i386.rpm
3052 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3118913 Jul 28 18:39 glibc-2.2.5-44.i386.rpm
2208 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2255469 Jul 28 18:38 glibc-devel-2.2.5-44.i386.rpm
[root@ns1 glibc]# rpm -Uvh --force glibc-*
Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
Segmentation fault
[root@ns1 glibc]#


If I try one package at a time, I get dependency errors:


[root@ns1 glibc]# rpm -Uvh --force glibc-common-2.2.5-44.i386.rpm
error: failed dependencies:
glibc > 2.2.5 conflicts with glibc-common-2.2.5-44
glibc-common = 2.3.2-27.9.7 is needed by glibc-2.3.2-27.9.7
[root@ns1 glibc]# rpm -Uvh --force glibc-devel-2.2.5-44.i386.rpm
error: failed dependencies:
glibc = 2.2.5 is needed by glibc-devel-2.2.5-44
[root@ns1 glibc]# rpm -Uvh --force glibc-2.2.5-44.i386.rpm
error: failed dependencies:
glibc-common = 2.2.5-44 is needed by glibc-2.2.5-44
glibc < 2.3.2 conflicts with glibc-common-2.3.2-27.9.7
[root@ns1 glibc]#


Does anyone have any idea how I could go about getting GLIBC rolled back to 2.2.5-44 without all of these errors?

Here is some information about my system:


[root@ns1 derek]# uname -a
Linux hidinghostnameforsecurity.com 2.4.20-28.7smp #1 SMP Thu Dec 18 11:18:31 EST 2003 i686 unknown

[kkubasik]

why dont you uninstall glibc completely, then just install the eariler version? its simpler then a rollback with all these dependancies.

[denimderek]

why dont you uninstall glibc completely, then just install the eariler version? its simpler then a rollback with all these dependancies.

I'd love to, but I haven't been able to force uninstall the package. How do you suggest I do that? I tried rpm -e --force glibc-* but that's no good. Is there something I'm missing?