Re: libc6

[Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir@cohens.org.il>]

On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 04:13:42AM +0300, Antonis Antoniou wrote:
> 2008/9/25 Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>
> 
> > 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.

busybox-static, if youi happen to have it installed.

Any chance you still have a browser running there? It should be able to
download files from a remote host.

> 
> 
> I wish, I could execute dpkg but I cannot.
> I have the old package and it lies on
> /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.5-11_amd64.deb

Short of that, I guess that the only way to fix this is to boot in a
rescue system, copy stuff in and chroot. Any better suggestions?

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