Re: Quadra 950 stable->testing upgrade
On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 02:10:07PM -0500, Michael Shuey wrote:
> I got a Mac Quadra 950 recently; now it runs Debian 2.2 quite nicely.
> However, when I try to upgrade it to testing it chokes on libc6. For
> some reason the postinst invoked as it replaces files from ldso SEGV's,
> as does the script it tries after that fails. I'm trying libc6 2.2.2-1.
>
> I've also tried using 2.1.3-17 (as opposed to 2.1.3-13, which is installed
> now) from the security updates. Same result - the postinst scripts both
> SEGV. It looks like /bin/bash just doesn't like the libc that's being
> installed. Any suggestions? Should I try a newer kernel (still using the
> 2.2.10 from macinstall.tgz), or some funky dpkg options?
a newer kernel might help, 2.2.10 had the full bag of buserror
problems on 68040. BTW some 2.4 kernels got those problems again,
patches available.
Bye
Richard
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