Cloning,Testing, Installing, etc for the requisite glibc upgrade

[Chip (OP)]

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ListAttBBC  |  v6.3  |  2026-08-17  |  Andrew.human & Claude.ai

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This post/message is up to and including just prior to the GRAM (FINAL) MAKE, where we pause, take logs, shutdown the clone save save the disk image ( a directory)

This is the conversation at the end of the cloning:

https://claude.ai/share/c8e5cd56-4467-429d-82d6-10bc17bdaf54

----------> The actual testing:

1. Since our kernel lives in firmware then it's pointless to try to update it:

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echo "exclude=kernel*" >> /etc/yum.conf
2. Perform the yum installs after getting your repos in good order ("yum clean all", attenpt a "list" or "reiinstall" etc):

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yum groupinstall "Development Tools"
yum install glibc-headers kernel-headers bison gawk texinfo
3. Once that finishes, worth the quick verify before touching glibc source:

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yum list installed | grep -E 'gcc|glibc|kernel-headers|bison|gawk|texinfo'
gcc --version
uname -r

Bottom line: toolchain's in good shape, exclude is confirmed working, and you've got a better compiler option sitting unused. Ready to pull glibc 2.17 source next?

4. re. devtoolset-2-gcc 4.8.2 — already installed and sitting right there as a newer alternative. This is genuinely useful: Red Hat's Software Collections devtoolset packages are specifically meant to give you a newer compiler on old RHEL/CentOS without touching the system gcc, side by side. Worth building glibc using scl enable devtoolset-2 bash first rather than the stock 4.4.7 — meaningfully lowers the odds of a compiler-related build failure and costs nothing extra since it's already there, so LET'S USE IT: 

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scl enable devtoolset-2 bash
gcc --version    # should now show 4.8.2

scl enable devtoolset-2 bash
gcc --version

5. Next: pull glibc 2.17 source and set up an out-of-tree build (glibc explicitly requires building outside its own source dir):

* includes the "configure"

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mkdir -p /usr/local/src/glibc-build && cd /usr/local/src
wget http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/glibc/glibc-2.17.tar.gz
tar xzf glibc-2.17.tar.gz
cd glibc-build
../glibc-2.17/configure --prefix=/usr --disable-profile --enable-add-ons --with-headers=/usr/include --with-binutils=/usr/bin
U might get: configure: error: support for --no-whole-archive is needed so check:

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which ld
ld --version

\ld --help | grep whole-archive

ls /opt/rh/devtoolset-2/root/usr/bin/ld
/opt/rh/devtoolset-2/root/usr/bin/ld --version

So it's very likely the colourify wrapper corrupting configure's test after all. Quick, definitive check:

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\ld --help | grep whole-archive
Clone  root@forum:14:15:41/usr/local/src/glibc-build unalias ld
 Clone  root@forum:14:42:13/usr/local/src/glibc-build type ld
     ld is /opt/rh/devtoolset-2/root/usr/bin/ld
 Clone  root@forum:14:42:21/usr/local/src/glibc-build


Then go back an rerun the configure < same error > ""grep -B5 -A15 "no-whole-archive" config.log"

THis led us to upgrafde the Assembler and I stop here - see the rest in print !~ BYE

THIS IS ONLY A GUIDE ! -- Perform the folluwing:

A. Configure Clone VM:

B. D/L https://vault.centos.org/6.10/isos/x86_64/CentOS-6.10-x86_64-minimal.iso

C., Add an new VM: Install OS later > "CentOS 6 64-bit", 2 CPUs, 2GB RAM, I/O ctl=SCSI, Choose a single (unsplit) extent (contiguous) of 32 GB disk space and then save to E:\VMware\VMs\

D. Change via Settings (start VMware with the Administrator option): Change CD/DVD - see "Advanced" and set to "IDE" then go back and finally point to the ISO you downladed in A.

e. Boot into that install/upgrade, skip the ISO checking and u r off !

Issues:

1. Replace /etc/yum/repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo with:

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[C6.10-base]
name=CentOS-6.10 - Base
baseurl=http://vault.centos.org/6.10/os/$basearch/
#baseurl=http://centos.org
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-6
enabled=1
metadata_expire=never

[C6.10-updates]
name=CentOS-6.10 - Updates
baseurl=http://vault.centos.org/6.10/updates/$basearch/
#baseurl=http://centos.org
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-6
enabled=1
metadata_expire=never

[C6.10-extras]
name=CentOS-6.10 - Extras
baseurl=http://vault.centos.org/6.10/extras/$basearch/
#baseurl=http://centos.org
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-6
enabled=1
metadata_expire=never

[C6.10-contrib]
name=CentOS-6.10 - Contrib
baseurl=http://vault.centos.org/6.10/contrib/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-6
enabled=0
metadata_expire=never

[C6.10-centosplus]
name=CentOS-6.10 - CentOSPlus
baseurl=http://vault.centos.org/6.10/centosplus/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-6
enabled=0
metadata_expire=never

2. Replace ~/.bashrc with:

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# .bashrc

#export ENV_TAG=Live
#export ENV_TAG=Dev
 export ENV_TAG=Clone

# ---------------------------------------------------------
# STYLES
#  0  Reset all
#  1  Bold / bright
#  2  Dim
#  3  Italic
#  4  Underline
#  5  Blink
#  7  Reverse (swap fg/bg)
#  8  Hidden
#  9  Strikethrough
#
# FOREGROUND COLORS              BACKGROUND COLORS
#  30  Black    (90 bright)       40  Black    (100 bright)
#  31  Red      (91 bright)       41  Red      (101 bright)
#  32  Green    (92 bright)       42  Green    (102 bright)
#  33  Yellow   (93 bright)       43  Yellow   (103 bright)
#  34  Blue     (94 bright)       44  Blue     (104 bright)
#  35  Magenta  (95 bright)       45  Magenta  (105 bright)
#  36  Cyan     (96 bright)       46  Cyan     (106 bright)
#  37  White    (97 bright)       47  White    (107 bright)
#  39  Default                    49  Default
#
# EXTENDED (if terminal supports)
#  256-color:   \e[38;5;<0-255>m (fg)   \e[48;5;<0-255>m (bg)
#  Truecolor:   \e[38;2;<r>;<g>;<b>m (fg)   \e[48;2;<r>;<g>;<b>m (bg)
# ---------------------------------------------------------

# PS1 order is BG-colour/ENV_TAG-colour||user@host||":"||pwd|||"#"
if [ "$ENV_TAG" = "Live" ]; then

# PS1='\[\e[41;1;37m\] Live \[\e[0m\] \[\e[32m\]\u@\h\[\e[0m\]:\[\e[36m\]\w\[\e[0m\]\$ '
# Red background, white text, green user@:host, cyan working directory
  PS1='\[\e[41;1;37m\] Live \[\e[0m\] \[\e[32m\]\u@\h\[\e[0m\]:\[\e[36m\]\w\[\e[0m\]'
elif [ "$ENV_TAG" = "Dev" ]; then
# Magenta background, white text, white host@:user, cyan working directory
  PS1='\[\e[45;1;37m\] Dev \[\e[0m\] \[\e[37m\]\u@\h\[\e[0m\]:\[\e[36m\]\w\[\e[0m\]'
elif [ "$ENV_TAG" = "Clone" ]; then
# Blue background, white text, magenta host@:user, cyan working directory
  PS1='\[\e[44;1;37m\] Clone \[\e[0m\] \[\e[32m\]\u@\h\[\e[0m\]:\[\e[35m\]\t\[\e[36m\]\w\[\e[0m\] '
else
  PS1='Unrecognied ENV_TAG '
fi

export PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE=1
export NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS=1

# User specific aliases and functions

#if [ "$ENV_TAG" = "Live" ]; then
# alias poweroff='echo NO WAY'
# alias reboot='echo NO WAY'
#else
##alias poweroff='echo NO WAY'
##alias reboot='echo NO WAY'
#fi

alias rm='rm -i'
alias cp='cp -bi'
alias mv='mv -i'

alias ee='nano'
alias lt='ls -alt'
alias lr='ls -altr'
alias ll='ls -al'
alias lS='ls -Sal'
alias cls='clear'
alias tuneweb='nano /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf'

alias px='ps auxfw'
alias netn='grc netstat -puatn'
alias nets='grc netstat -puat'

alias repo='cd /etc/yum.repos.d'
alias private='nano /var/www/html/private/index.html'

alias grep='grep --color=always'

alias sizes='du -Sh | sort -rh | head -25'

# Source global definitions
if [ -f /etc/bashrc ]; then
        . /etc/bashrc
fi

# log every command typed because i'm gettin' old !
if [ -n "${BASH_VERSION}" ]; then
    trap "caller >/dev/null || \
printf '%s\\n' \"\$(date '+%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S%z')\
 \$(tty) \${BASH_COMMAND}\" 2>/dev/null >>~/.command_log" DEBUG
fi

alias log='cd /var/log'
alias sou='source ~/.bashrc'
alias brc='nano ~/.bashrc'

pushd()
{
  if [ $# -eq 0 ]; then
    DIR="${HOME}"
  else
    DIR="$1"
  fi

  builtin pushd "${DIR}" > /dev/null
  echo -n "DIRSTACK: "
  dirs
}

pushd_builtin()
{
  builtin pushd > /dev/null
  echo -n "DIRSTACK: "
  dirs
}

popd()
{
  builtin popd > /dev/null
  echo -n "DIRSTACK: "
  dirs
}

alias fid='find . -type d -ls'
alias fnd='find . -name'
alias lsf="ls -l | egrep -v '^d'"
#alias lsd="ls -l | egrep '^d'"
alias lsd="ls -dl */."


alias tips='cd /tips'
alias py='python'
alias py3='python3'

alias aws='nano /etc/awstats/awstats.forum.drugs-and-users.org.conf'
alias awsupd='/usr/bin/perl /usr/share/awstats/wwwroot/cgi-bin/awstats.pl -config=forum.drugs-and-users.org -update'
alias sslerr='less /var/log/httpd/ssl_error_log'

alias push='git push origin master'

alias ep='nano /etc/postfix/main.cf'

alias mirror='sh /bin/mirror.sh'
alias mirrorts='sh /bin/mirror-ts.sh'
alias motd='nano /etc/motd'

export PATH="$HOME/.pyenv/bin:$PATH"

#if [ "$ENV_TAG" = "Live" ]; then
# eval "$(pyenv init -)"
# eval "$(pyenv virtualenv-init -)"
#else
##eval "$(pyenv init -)"
##eval "$(pyenv virtualenv-init -)"
#fi

alias priv='nano /var/www/html/private/index.html'
alias cdpriv='cd /var/www/html/private'

alias html='cd /var/www/html'
alias html20='cd /var/www/html/smf20'
alias html21='cd /var/www/html/smf21'

alias pak='cd /var/www/html/Packages'
alias src='cd /var/www/html/Sources'
alias the='cd /var/www/html/Themes/default'

alias pak20='cd /var/www/html/smf20/Packages'
alias src20='cd /var/www/html/smf20/Sources'
alias the20='cd /var/www/html/smf20/Themes/default'

alias pak21='cd /var/www/html/smf21/Packages'
alias src21='cd /var/www/html/smf21/Sources'
alias the21='cd /var/www/html/smf21/Themes/default'

alias ise='cd /var/www/html/The_ISE_Project'
alias isd='cd /var/www/html/ISE_Data'

alias ise20='cd /var/www/html/smf20/The_ISE_Project'
alias isd20='cd /var/www/html/smf20/ISE_Data'

alias maint='nano /var/www/html/Settings.php'
alias maint20='nano /var/www/html/smf20/Settings.php'
alias maint21='nano /var/www/html/smf21/Settings.php'

alias syslog='less /var/log/messages'
alias profile='nano ~/.bash_profile'

alias py='python3'
alias py3='python3'

alias rmback='rm -f *~'

alias colourify='/usr/local/bin/grc -es'

alias chownhtml='chown -R apache:apache /var/www/html'

alias pdf='cd /var/www/html/pdfjs'
alias pdfb='cd /var/www/html/pdfjs/backup'
alias pdf20='cd /var/www/html/smf20/pdfjs'
alias pdf21='cd /var/www/html/smf21/pdfjs'

alias bin='cd /bin'


3. Replace ~./nanorc with:

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## Here is an example for Bourne shell scripts.
##

syntax "sh" "\.sh$"
icolor brightgreen "^[0-9A-Z_]+\(\)"
color green "\<(case|do|done|elif|else|esac|exit|fi|for|function|if|in|local|read|return|select|shift|then|time|until|while)\>"
color green "(\{|\}|\(|\)|\;|\]|\[|`|\\|\$|<|>|!|=|&|\|)"
color green "-[Ldefgruwx]\>"
color green "-(eq|ne|gt|lt|ge|le|s|n|z)\>"
color brightblue "\<(cat|cd|chmod|chown|cp|echo|env|export|grep|install|let|ln|make|mkdir|mv|rm|sed|set|tar|touch|umask|unset)\>"
icolor brightred "\$\{?[0-9A-Z_!@#$*?-]+\}?"
color cyan "(^|[[:space:]])#.*$"
color brightyellow ""(\\.|[^"])*"" "'(\\.|[^'])*'"
color ,green "[[:space:]]+$"

#include "/usr/share/nano/sh.nanorc"
include "/usr/share/nano/c.nanorc"
include "/usr/share/nano/perl.nanorc"
#include "/usr/share/nano/cpp.nanorc"


NB: This happens when a script gets edited/saved on Windows (Notepad, or copy-pasted through certain Windows terminals) then scp'ed to Linux and run as-is on Linux. Fix it on Clone directly:

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sed -i 's/\r$//' clone1.sh
The clone job:

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#!/bin/bash

set -e

LIVE_IP="128.199.200.202"   # direct IP — hostname resolution unreliable, see tonight's DNS/hosts issues
BACKUP_DIR="/root"

echo "[1/4] Dumping all databases on Live (run over SSH, output stays on Live)..."
echo ssh root@"$LIVE_IP" "mysqldump --all-databases --single-transaction --quick > $BACKUP_DIR/live_full_backup_\$(date +%F).sql"

echo "[2/4] Pulling the SQL dump from Live to this box..."
echo scp root@"$LIVE_IP":"$BACKUP_DIR"/live_full_backup_*.sql "$BACKUP_DIR"/

echo "[3/4] Pulling filesystem from Live (attachments excluded wholesale, added back next step)..."
rsync -zpaAPv --numeric-ids --progress -e ssh \
  --exclude="/dev/*" \
  --exclude="/proc/*" \
  --exclude="/boot/*" \
  --exclude="/sys/*" \
  --exclude="/tmp/*" \
  --exclude="/run/*" \
  --exclude="/mnt/*" \
  --exclude="/media/*" \
  --exclude="/lost+found" \
  --exclude="/swapfile" \
  --exclude="/var/lib/mysql/*" \
  --exclude="/root/*" \
  --exclude="/home/*" \
  --exclude="/Dev/*" \
  --exclude="/dev_mirror/*" \
  --exclude="/tips/*" \
  --exclude="/backup/*" \
  --exclude="/WEBMIN_BACKUPS/*" \
  --exclude="/git/*" \
  --exclude="/rexx/*" \
  --exclude="/awstats-7.5/" \
  --exclude="/samba/*" \
  --exclude="/1.8/*" \
  --exclude="/router/*" \
  --exclude="/var/lib/clamav/*" \
  --exclude="/var/lib/awstats/*" \
  --exclude="/var/spool/mail/*" \
  --exclude="/opt/metasploit-framework/.git/*" \
  --exclude="/usr/src/tensorflow/.git/*" \
  --exclude="/var/www/html/private/*" \
  --exclude="/var/www/html/ISE_Data/*" \
  --exclude="/var/www/html/backup/*" \
  --exclude="/SQL/*" \
  --exclude="/var/log/httpd/*" \
  --exclude="/etc/webmin/system-status/history/*" \
  --exclude="/var/lib/fail2ban/*" \
  --exclude="/etc/hosts" \
  --exclude="/etc/hpasswd" \
  --exclude="/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/torch/lib/*" \
  --exclude="/var/www/html/attachments/*" \
  --exclude="/var/www/html/attachments2/*" root@"$LIVE_IP":/ /

echo "[4/4] Pulling only the 20 newest attachments (from both dirs combined, found on Live over SSH)..."
ssh root@"$LIVE_IP" "find /var/www/html/attachments /var/www/html/attachments2 -type f -printf '%T@ %p\n' | sort -rn | head -20 | cut -d' ' -f2-" > /tmp/newest_attachments.txt

rsync -paPv --numeric-ids --files-from=/tmp/newest_attachments.txt --relative \
  -e ssh root@"$LIVE_IP":/ /

echo "[5/5] Regenerating swap (never reuse a copied swapfile — excluded from rsync above on purpose)..."
if [ -f /swapfile ]; then
  swapoff /swapfile 2>/dev/null || true
  rm -f /swapfile
fi
fallocate -l 2G /swapfile
chmod 600 /swapfile
mkswap /swapfile
swapon /swapfile
grep -q '^/swapfile' /etc/fstab || echo "/swapfile none swap sw 0 0" >> /etc/fstab

echo "Done. SQL dump is at $BACKUP_DIR/live_full_backup_*.sql — import it manually with:"
echo "  mysql < $BACKUP_DIR/live_full_backup_*.sql"

Fixing the yum repo:

a. save ther old "/etc/yum.repos.d'
b. unzip the repo.zip (attached)


DO NOT TRUST ANY OF THE PREVIOUS STEPS AS YOU WILL NEED TO GATHER DATA FROM ALL THE ATTaCHMENTS AS WELL