641381 - Update linux ix to glibc-2.5-42, including ref image

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Infrastructure & Operations Graveyard :: CIDuty, task, P3)

Description

[Nick Thomas [:nthomas] (UTC+12)]

The glibc-2.5-12 that we have as stock on the linux32 ref images is known to cause buildbot masters to crash in python. catlee figured out the fix in bug 532501 comment #14, which is update to glibc-2.5-42. In particular we have been installing
 glibc-2.5-42.el5_4.3.i686.rpm
 glibc-common-2.5-42.el5_4.3.i386.rpm
 glibc-devel-2.5-42.el5_4.3.i386.rpm
 glibc-headers-2.5-42.el5_4.3.i386.rpm
There is a copy of those in various places, eg buildbot-master1:~root/. Note that we've left glibc-debuginfo and glibc-debuginfo-common unchanged.

My primary motivation is to get this into the linux ref images, particularly for ix, so that we don't spin up more masters and retrospectively apply this fix. But it's possible, but unlikely, that this could be causing crashes on builders too, and we could consider pushing this out globally, eg using Puppet. That would be better than some build slaves having new glibc and others an old one. Comments ?

Comment 1

[John O'Duinn [:joduinn] (please use "needinfo?" flag)]

Found in triage. 

Is this still an issue? If yes, should this be morphed into a puppet bug?

Comment 2

[Nick Thomas [:nthomas] (UTC+12)]

Fixed by moving to 64bit Centos 6 for masters:

$ rpm -qa | grep glibc
glibc-devel-2.12-1.47.el6_2.5.x86_64
glibc-common-2.12-1.47.el6_2.5.x86_64
glibc-headers-2.12-1.47.el6_2.5.x86_64
glibc-2.12-1.47.el6_2.5.x86_64