Re: Potato upgrade to woody fails.
On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 07:12:16PM -0400, Kevin J. Galat wrote:
> I just tried to upgrade to woody from potato and have major problems
> with linkers not working etc. I was using deselect in a virtual
> terminal and have found that the libraries are no longer accessible. I
> can type in bash but cannot invoke programs etc like ls, cat, dselect,
> top. This is a little beyond my capability to troubleshoot. Any help
> would be appreciated.
Looks like your libc6 is borked. If you have a free terminal, login, and
bash will probably not work. I doubt that you'd be able to have a nice
shutdown if it is libc6 (everything in /sbin is dynamically linked).
If you have something like Tom's Root Boot, and a good copy of the deb,
you can manually install it. IIRC, there is a tool called undeb, although
I have never used it. It is easy to take apart a deb anyway.
If you have to do it manually, I would:
1) boot with Tom's Root Boot
2) mount the root partition on /mnt
3) cp the deb to /mnt/tmp
4) ar x the.deb
5) tar -xzf data.tar.gz
6) cp -a directories ..
7) reboot
Of course, this might not work, and it does not update any package
files, but I doubt that it could make the situation much worse. And for
the next time, I would get sash, or statically compile some of the
binaries (eg. ls, shutdown).
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Seneca
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