Re: glibc 2.1 broken?
Brederlow <goswin.brederlow@student.uni-tuebingen.de> writes:
> Falk Hueffner updated his alpha to the current packages and with that
> he updated to glibc 2.1. After that he had had a Debian system. I
> don't know what the exact problem was, but after the glibc update most
> glibc programs didn't work and dpkg was one of them. He tried to
> downgrade back to the old one by hand, but that didn't work out.
>
> He warned me not to upgrade and now I'm wondering whether this is a
> known problem or if its fixed already.
>
I'd like to warn everyone too.
I tried the upgrade from stable to unstable a couple of days ago using
apt, and my system was left in an unusuable state. I'm not smart
enough to know what caused the problem but apt started seg faulting
during the upgrade and wouldn't continue. I also found I could no
longer telnet into the alpha box -- my console on the serial port
would not longer respond either. I tried downgrading libc6 and
libstdc++ from the root shell I was currently logged into but my
system froze and now upon reboot hangs when mounting swap. I'm going
to have to start over from scratch I guess.
==Jamie
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