glibc bug #747377

[Nicolas Chauvet]

2011/10/27 Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at>:
> Hi,
>
> this bug in the glibc headers:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=747377
> can potentially crash almost any program built against it. So far, only git
> is KNOWN to crash, but other software might be affected in unknown ways.
> Fedora Release Engineering is rebuilding all the packages in Fedora which
> were built against the faulty glibc.
>
> These glibc builds are affected:
> * glibc-2.14.90-11, testing only, possibly affected
> * glibc-2.14.90-12, testing only, possibly affected
> * glibc-2.14.90-12.999, stable from 2011-10-19 to 20, definitely affected
> * glibc-2.14.90-13, stable since 2011-10-20, definitely affected
>
> These glibc builds are NOT affected:
> * glibc-2.14.90-14, now pending
> * glibc-2.14.90-10, stable until 2011-10-19
> * everything older than glibc-2.14.90-10
>
> Several RPM Fusion packages are affected by this. In particular, my
> freetype-freeworld-2.4.6-2.fc16 build had glibc-2.14.90-13 in the buildroot
> and is definitely affected. But a bunch of other packages has been built
> recently as well.
>
> Another problem is that the fix:
> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/glibc-2.14.90-14
> is still pending, so anything built now against the stable F16 (or right
> now, even updates-testing) WILL STILL BE BROKEN! Unless we somehow pull the
> fixed glibc manually into our buildroots. (So please DO NOT start issuing
> rebuilds right now, it won't help.)

Hi,

We indeed need to track this issue. I'm suspecting this problem
triggered a bug in ffmpeg that was recently built with this version.
Here is a list of package built since the 19/10 for f16 with this
problematic glibc:

mythtv
mp3gain
ffmpeg
mame
freetype-freeworld


I will take care of the rebuilt with the new glibc -14 in override,
and thoses build will replace the previous version in the GA
repository.
I will also rebuilt every kmod with the kernel from (dist-)f16.

Then I don't think f16-updates will be enabled in our buildsys until
f16 GA in the repository to prevent last minutes issue.
Talking about that, I don't think we should continue to have
updates-testing enabled in the buildsys by default. I'm fine to
proceed overrides once f16 has reached GA.

Thx

Nicolas (kwizart)