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Re: sid/i386 upgrade problem



On Sun, 22 Dec 2002 17:08, Hank Marquardt wrote:
> thanks Russell -- it's worse than that though ... dpkg won't work either
> ... I had to manually get an old libc by using ar and tar on an old deb
> in the tmp directory, then do an export LD_PRELOAD of that lib ... that
> got basic stuff back and i was able then downgrade properly with dpkg --
> it seems to only effect folks running 2.2 level kernels ... a bug has
> been filed.

Just to clarify, the problem may only be as severe as you experienced on 2.2 
kernels, but the problem I experienced happens on 2.4 kernels.

I don't want anyone to think that they are safe just because they use a 
2.4kernel.

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