Re: upgraded libc6 and libc6 and broke my system (Woody)
Why do I have this feeling that I just dodged a bullet?
A big _Thank_ You to all who answered my 'Paranoid's Question' post from
yesterday!
montefin
Bob Nielsen wrote:
>
> Those who run woody should probably subscribe to the debian-devel list.
> There was a warning about the db2 problem (not that it stopped me from
> upgrading). 8^(
>
> Today there have been messages on debian-devel about several programs
> that have exhibited problems are in the process of being recompiled
> with the new libs. Hopefully it will be safe to go back into the water
> soon.
>
> In the meantime, I (and presumably) several others are limping along
> with partly broken systems.
>
> I recall similar difficulties with potato.
>
> Bob
>
> On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 01:58:39PM -0600, montefin wrote:
> > Hi, I'm in a somewhat similar situation to Bryan (below), except I
> > didn't upgrade.
> >
> > My last woody upgrade was about a week and a half ago. Luckily, I posted
> > the 'Paranoid's Question' to this list yesterday (9/26 at 18:54 MDT)
> > just before attempting another upgrade.
> >
> > The cautionary replies I received, re: libc6 upgrade, led me to hold off
> > hitting the ENTER key.
> >
> > This morning, of course, I'm glad I waited and feel bad for those who
> > ran into difficulties.
> >
> > I just ran:
> >
> > dpkg --status libc6 libc6-dev [which returned current versions as
> > 2.1.3-10]
> > dpkg --status libdb2 libdb2++ [which returned current versions as
> > 2:2.7.7-2]
> > dpkg --status xlib6 xlib6g xlib6g-dev [which returned current versions
> > as 3.3.6-10]
> > dpkg --status ldso [which returned a current version of 1.9.11-9]
> >
> > Then I ran
> >
> > apt-get update
> > apt-get --simulate upgrade
> >
> > And got a preview that would upgrade 51 packages, including
> >
> > libc6
> > libc6-dev
> > libdb2
> > libdb2++
> > xlib6
> > xlib6g
> > xlib6g-dev
> >
> > AFAICT, the following packages are _not_ installed on my system:
> > libc6-dbg, libc6-bin, libdb2-util
> >
> > Now I'm in a holding pattern regarding woody. My question is how long
> > can I maintain this holding pattern before woody proceeds too far beyond
> > me to do a simple 'apt-get upgrade'?
> >
> > Thanks for any guidance,
> >
> > montefin
> >
> >
> > Bryan Walton wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi, I have been following this thread today, very closely. Here is my question,I did an apt-get -f install dist-upgrade (in unstable) this morning (as well as yesterday). So, I am sure that I am running this libc6 package that is breaking everything for everybody. However, I haven't had any problems (so far). Exim is still working fine. What does this mean? Should I count my blessings? Or will this libc6 package start breaking things only if I reboot?
> > > Just trying to be pre-emptive here.
> > >
> >
> >
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