I had this problem last night on one of my servers, and it screwed me
pretty good. I installed the updates, and went to make dinner. When I got
back my SSH session had timed out. I tried to SSH back into the box, no
luck. I noticed the glibc banner from Exim, and realized that it had hosed
up my OpenSSH server. The server is quite a few miles away, and I didn't
have any other method to get shell access to the machine, so I had to make
a long drive to perform a reboot. :( Needless to say, be careful when
installing the RH updates.
ahp
On Thu, 20 Mar 2003 13:03:10 -0400, Patrick Boutilier
<boutilpj@???> wrote:
> If you are running RedHat 8.0 and apply the latest glibc updates
> (2.3.2-4.80) you might get the following error. Restarting the Exim
> daemon fixes the problem.
>
> OpenSSH was affected by the same problem as well. RedHat 7.3 doesn't
> seem to have the problem, at least not with OpenSSH.
>
>
>
>
>
> telnet student.ednet.ns.ca 25
>
> Trying 142.227.51.33...
>
> Connected to Student.EDnet.NS.CA (142.227.51.33).
> Escape character is '^]'.
> /usr/local/exim/bin/exim: relocation error: /lib/libnss_dns.so.2: symbol
> __libc_res_nquery, version GLIBC_PRIVATE not defined in file
> libresolv.so.2 with link time reference
> Connection closed by foreign host.
>
>
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