New glibc/libc package stack available for testing

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Many of you know we had a recent glitch with the glibc package stack version 2.26-4. Unfortunatly that also removed existing glibc package stack version 2.25 from main-updates repo. That leaves us with only the outdated 2.23 version in main-release repo.

So as quickly as we could do it right our developers (thanks @TPG) built a new glibc package stack version 2.26-6. The packages are here.

Please if you are at all interested in package testing set up an account here so you can help us with the package approval process.

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Colin and I both have tested new glibc and it’s working for us so far.

Hopefully we can get some people testing and voting in Kahinah and get this in main-updates ASAP if all proves to be OK.

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What I learned with this issue there is not a way to boot the system to emergency shell (I mean the one before the real system starts). The only way I found is select a wrong partition for root parameter at the boot command line. :confused:

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No there isn’t. The only way to fix this is to access the broken operating system from another operating system or from a ‘Live’ or ‘Rescue’ disk.

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Well, I did as I described above … :wink:

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Well there is a way to break into the emergency shell with a proper command. If you add rd.break to the grub cmdline the iniird will exit to a basic busybox shell just before it tryies to mount the main filesystem.
Check out ‘man dracut,cmdline’

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Great! Thank you @Colin. It is exactly what I was looking.