On Sun, Dec 09, 2007 at 09:28:06AM +0000, PieterB wrote: > Hello glibc maintainers, > > I managed to reboot the VPS in repair mode. I see a lot of messages like > in /var/log/syslog (example from dovecot, but others programs give errors > too): > > Dec 8 21:18:28 foobar dovecot: child 21837 (login) returned error 127 > Dec 8 21:19:28 foobar dovecot: imap-login: imap-login: error while > loading shared libraries: /lib/libc.so.6: file too short > > I manually installed glibc 2.7-4 (libc6_2.7-4_i386.deb) and will reboot after > the backup is finished. No that won't work you have to go back to a 2.6 one. > Is there anything else I can check to find out what happened? The kernel you run on has a custom redhat patch that conflicts with the new O_CLOEXEC feature. Either they change the kernel, or you keep a pre 2.6. -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O madcoder@debian.org OOO http://www.madism.org
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