On 2008-09-25 19:15 +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote:
> The problem may be that all your other programs were compiled against
> the version you had installed previously (which, as I remember, was
> quite old).
No, not that old -- even newer than the version in Etch.
> libc6 is a very, very important package. You cannot upgrade it to
> another major version without upgrading half of your system.
This is simply not true.
>>> To me this looks like your new libc6 is very broken and now nothing
>>> using it (which is about everything) will work. But i might be wrong.
>
> Correction: I guess it isn't broken in any way, it's just that all your
> other programs are linked to an older version and don't work with the
> new one.
Please stop spreading that clueless FUD. In fact, the glibc has been
upward-compatible for more than 10 years and will likely remain so for
another decade.
>> Basically I cannot exec rsync, scp
>> If I manage to get the old libc6, I used to have, and manage some how to
>> install it (since I cannot execute dpkg) it wil work (in theory)?
>
> Yes, I think so.
Only that it will be difficult to unpack it, unless there is some
statically linked program on the system that can do that.