From: Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il>
To: Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wurmus@mdc-berlin.de>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, 30537@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#30537: glibc 2.26 refuses to run on CentOS 6.8
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2018 11:39:10 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180220093910.GA23825@macbook41> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87eflgstqt.fsf@mdc-berlin.de>
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On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 07:46:02PM +0100, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
> Hi Guix,
>
> I have a bad day. After the upgrade to glibc 2.26 none of the
> Guix-installed software runs on the HPC cluster running CentOS 6.8.
>
> The glibc 2.26 expects a minimum kernel version of 3.x on x86_64, but
> CentOS 6.8 only comes with a heavily patched 2.6.32.
>
> The NixOS developers patch glibc to make sure that all software still
> runs on Linux 2.6.32:
>
> https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/master/pkgs/development/libraries/glibc/allow-kernel-2.6.32.patch
>
> Can we please also apply this? Without this Guix on HPC is pretty much
> dead at the MDC.
>
We should also update the docs with the (new) minimum specs as needed.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-02-20 9:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-02-19 18:46 glibc 2.26 refuses to run on CentOS 6.8 Ricardo Wurmus
[not found] ` <87d110stkn.fsf@mdc-berlin.de>
[not found] ` <87a7w4ssmx.fsf@mdc-berlin.de>
2018-02-19 19:41 ` bug#30537: " Ricardo Wurmus
[not found] ` <878tbosr7h.fsf@mdc-berlin.de>
2018-02-19 20:28 ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2018-02-21 23:12 ` Mark H Weaver
[not found] ` <87bmgiey3k.fsf@netris.org>
2018-02-22 20:30 ` Efraim Flashner
2018-02-23 22:01 ` bug#30537: Grafts vs. early bootstrapping packages Ludovic Courtès
2018-02-20 1:22 ` bug#30537: glibc 2.26 refuses to run on CentOS 6.8 Leo Famulari
2018-02-20 11:52 ` Leo Famulari
2018-02-20 12:34 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-02-20 12:51 ` Leo Famulari
2018-02-20 14:33 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-02-20 17:55 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-02-20 9:39 ` Efraim Flashner [this message]
2018-02-23 22:26 ` Ludovic Courtès
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