CentOS - Jun 2015 - Many troubles in CentOS 6 since the last update of GLibc-2.12-1.149.el6

Hi all,

I would like to know if these troubles affect also other people, for 
example, I can no longer connect to Sipe (Lync) network by Pidgin since 
the  Glibc has been updated and now I've just discovered that it was no 
longer possible to take screenshots with gnome-screenshot, I always 
receive an error message telling: "Unable to save the screenshot to disk:

Value for PNG text chunk Software cannot be converted to ISO-8859-1 
encoding."

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Have you rebooted since the update?  If not, try that and see if it helps.

On 06/11/2015 10:13 AM, Bernard Lheureux wrote:

This issue looks to be related to iconv included in the package glibc !
Is that possible to downgrade glibc on a CentOS 6 ?
> Hi all,
>
> I would like to know if these troubles affect also other people, for 
> example, I can no longer connect to Sipe (Lync) network by Pidgin 
> since the  Glibc has been updated and now I've just discovered that it 
> was no longer possible to take screenshots with gnome-screenshot, I 
> always receive an error message telling: "Unable to save the 
> screenshot to disk:
>
> Value for PNG text chunk Software cannot be converted to ISO-8859-1 
> encoding."
>

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On Fri, 12 Jun 2015, Bernard Lheureux wrote:
> On 06/11/2015 10:13 AM, Bernard Lheureux wrote:
>
> This issue looks to be related to iconv included in the package glibc !
> Is that possible to downgrade glibc on a CentOS 6 ?
All works fine for me with latest versions.  Screenshots work aok.

You're free to downgrade it with yum downgrade, but expect to jump through a
few hoops.  You've verified that there's no corruption in your setup? 
An odd
LANG/LOCALE?

jh

On Thu, 2015-06-11 at 10:13 +0200, Bernard Lheureux
wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I would like to know if these troubles affect also other people, for 
> example, <snip>
>  now I've just discovered that it was no 
> longer possible to take screenshots with gnome-screenshot, I always 
> receive an error message telling: "Unable to save the screenshot to
disk:
> 
> Value for PNG text chunk Software cannot be converted to ISO-8859-1 
> encoding."
May be somthing gnome specific? I use Ksnapshot w/o any problem.

I just tried the "Take a screenshoot" from Gnome Accessories, selected
a
region and saved it in default format, png w/o problems.
> 
HTH,
Bill