Bug#219025: reverting to 2.3.2.ds1-8 doesn't help
Two days ago I had installed minimum stable system on a laptop (IBM T21)
(from CD, Woody 3.0) and apt-get dist-upgraded to sid, then installed 400+
packages (X Windows, KDE, etc) (used dpkg --set-selections from pkg
list of another similar laptop) and it all worked (stock kernel 2.2
installed, then compiled kernel 2.4 (pretty much stock, one or two
modules added in but no patches) for it and that worked too).
Then re-thought the partitioning, repartitioned, re-installed yesterday,
and had the libc6 ldconfig "illegal instruction" problem.
Then thought, "it worked yesterday, why not revert back libc6
a version" tried that (libc6, locales, and libc6-dev, maybe one or
two others under libc/libc6 from snapshot.debian.net (2.3.2.ds1-8)
and still got illegal instruction with ldconfig (still with kernel 2.2).
Perhaps I did it wrong. To get stuff to complete installation,
I replaced /sbin/ldconfig with /bin/true (removing /sbin/ldconfig
results in dkpg complaining that it can't find it), and put in some
symbolic links manually in /usr/lib to /usr/X11R6/lib to get X to run
(but KDE never ran properly).
Unfortunately my compiled kernel was blown away in the re-install,
I will try to compile a new one but not sure how that will go
with a broken libc6. I suppose it should go ok, presumably
the kernel doesn't need ldconfig?
Finally, I straced the ldconfig to see where it barfs. It
barfs "illegal instruction" after the uname call.
HTH with the bug tracking.
This is my first bug report (supplementary report to an existing bug)
to BTS, let me know if I should have done anything differently.
Thanks.
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