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Old 04-01-2010, 07:48 PM   #1
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Exclamation Date: relocation error. Receive this error during boot up.


I just completed migrating a Redhat 9 server to new hardware and a virtual machine. If I attempt to alter the time or date with the date command I receive the following message.

"date: relocation error: /lib/tls/libpthread.so.0: symbol __resp, version GLIBC_PRIVATE not defined in the file libc.so.6 with link time reference"

This also comes up during the bootup process along with "sleep: relocation error". I have never done I migration like this before and would consider myself a novice to linux. This server runs an old software package and I would prefer not having to totally reload it. The software we run appears to be run fine at first glance but I don't want to roll this out until all errors are resolved. Any help would be appreciated.
 
Old 04-02-2010, 07:31 AM   #2
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What sort of virtual machine type did you say it was ? Redhat .. other 2.4 kernel ?
 
Old 04-02-2010, 01:44 PM   #3
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Red Hat Linux release 9 (Shrike) Kernel 2.4.20. It's VMware
 
Old 04-03-2010, 09:20 PM   #4
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What program did you use to migrate it ? VMware Converter, Platespin ? .. it's a bit unusual for the migration to break things, did you perform an upgrade of some kind ?
 
Old 04-05-2010, 04:55 PM   #5
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We used VMware converter. We migrated to a system from Dell Precision IDE to HP dl380 SCSI. In order to boot we had to reload the Grub but now we're getting the errors:
1. VFS: Cannont open root device "LABEL=/" OR 00:00
2. pLEASE APPEND A CORRECT "root=" boot option
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 00:00
 
Old 04-05-2010, 07:25 PM   #6
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I usually do the migration in the following order for an IDE based system:

Pre-migration(physical):
- Add the appropriate scsi driver
- create a new initrd with scsi support
- add an extra grub entry using the new initrd and ensure device is SDx

Migrate

Post-migration(virtual):
- boot using the new grub entry
- if boot is successful, make the new entry the default

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