From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Efraim Flashner Subject: bug#30537: glibc 2.26 refuses to run on CentOS 6.8 Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2018 11:39:10 +0200 Message-ID: <20180220093910.GA23825@macbook41> References: <87eflgstqt.fsf@mdc-berlin.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="gKMricLos+KVdGMg" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49054) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eo4P6-0004DR-H0 for bug-guix@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Feb 2018 04:40:09 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eo4P3-0008F5-Uk for bug-guix@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Feb 2018 04:40:04 -0500 Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:44229) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eo4P3-0008Ey-Qr for bug-guix@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Feb 2018 04:40:01 -0500 Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eo4P3-0007rX-Hn for bug-guix@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Feb 2018 04:40:01 -0500 Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-Message-ID: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87eflgstqt.fsf@mdc-berlin.de> List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Guix List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "bug-Guix" To: Ricardo Wurmus Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, 30537@debbugs.gnu.org --gKMricLos+KVdGMg Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 07:46:02PM +0100, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > Hi Guix, >=20 > 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. >=20 > 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. >=20 > The NixOS developers patch glibc to make sure that all software still > runs on Linux 2.6.32: >=20 > https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/master/pkgs/developme= nt/libraries/glibc/allow-kernel-2.6.32.patch >=20 > Can we please also apply this? Without this Guix on HPC is pretty much > dead at the MDC. >=20 We should also update the docs with the (new) minimum specs as needed. --=20 Efraim Flashner =D7=90=D7=A4=D7=A8=D7=99=D7=9D = =D7=A4=D7=9C=D7=A9=D7=A0=D7=A8 GPG key =3D A28B F40C 3E55 1372 662D 14F7 41AA E7DC CA3D 8351 Confidentiality cannot be guaranteed on emails sent or received unencrypted --gKMricLos+KVdGMg Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCgAdFiEEoov0DD5VE3JmLRT3Qarn3Mo9g1EFAlqL7LsACgkQQarn3Mo9 g1F7lg//QFgxsZQO4TDtLFYxodl9DzOiTHX68bTvr+1SX/5VnlnkoPsNtGpoJZdQ ico8D/h9y9KySWJDkJrP+8sWyPRikiFWDHA4bQYXyvQdgXUN+54Msou0c8uXsbEy 2dhLrDS7jXEmVB/POyprxvrMjypoGXMlPSf5WJhUOiCuBunrYlDmEOyMJ7AP3kpG ykBe/6XaX3NATY5lQeojXaL6yQ/UTr0C4JqBHTKSoDwGfoq02i8wSi71a0sS97FO gIyQ2ZyGHvCTVPXJLD+Gh+fjbHa997XGbXN0Ht6ar0kwCJSI74Nz/WX8xqD7+Ec9 W8hscYLoh9PeX1QDpiXJKDLP+D5E1++wbiNQTd3Eu7AfnmxboKERl6sJodTZaMRk J2dqCT7PaU5OEygAl3r53UhM2NvFs/anQPV2aFTURyjHJRJxSKayurxU3rPuMK/j JdEuqWvAaJRRVmHjmwtIJ9F/vtpxItXSe8q/oiKbL68cbrkmZafE7UFRJR4NF9Op +k4FffocjoYMiFRfbtR5tGS2RUGK98gXHzhM4tM9Qx9vbAvAvF7+5dPH4LK5ZVrg I7MoV1eMWSxKYhD47rPP/0ivBtiR47zTkXo5kAvZWWp7XTgq3UbruBAUfNoramxg l1bZAluZM8aAUdE/lb9pHdbj0IeuOU+gD2xZ/C2fPtmFVXy6k9U= =CYRM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --gKMricLos+KVdGMg--