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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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  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-02-20  9:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ 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
2018-02-19 18:49 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-02-19 19:09   ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-02-19 19:28     ` Danny Milosavljevic
2018-02-19 21:22       ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-02-19 22:46         ` Danny Milosavljevic
2018-02-19 19:41     ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-02-19 20:28       ` bug#30537: " Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2018-02-21 23:12       ` Mark H Weaver
2018-02-22 20:30         ` Efraim Flashner
2018-02-23 22:01         ` bug#30537: Grafts vs. early bootstrapping packages Ludovic Courtès
2018-02-20  9:39 ` Efraim Flashner [this message]
2018-02-23 22:26 ` glibc 2.26 refuses to run on CentOS 6.8 Ludovic Courtès

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