Re: glibc 2.1 broken?
On Fri, Mar 26, 1999 at 02:01:50PM -0500, Christopher C Chimelis wrote:
>
> On 26 Mar 1999, Brederlow wrote:
>
> > Falk Hueffner updated his alpha to the current packages and with that
> > he updated to glibc 2.1. After that he had had a Debian system. I
> > don't know what the exact problem was, but after the glibc update most
> > glibc programs didn't work and dpkg was one of them. He tried to
> > downgrade back to the old one by hand, but that didn't work out.
>
> Hmmm...it depends on how he updated. If he used apt, then all should be
> well. If he just updated the libc6.1 package and then dpkg, then dpkg
> will segfault because the libncurses packages have to be upgraded as well
> to work with libc6.1. I'm running glibc 2.1 currently on my UDB and all
> is well with past and present binaries. If possible, have him upgrade all
> of the libs that he hasn't yet sync'ed with the potato tree. libstdc++
> also needs to be upgraded and is in potato. Without a few of these being
> upgraded, he should see many segfaults and/or missing symbol errors.
>
The same happened to me. I upgraded not enough the first run (thats what you
get downloading on a slow line and thinking you can cut the download time to
a minimum :)
What I did:
download dpkg (and in my case also bash!)
ar x bash_xxx, tar zxvf data.tar.gz, and replace /bin/bash with the just
extracted one. ***THEN*** ar x dpkg and cd /usr/bin and install with
*this* dpkg the new dpkg. Then all should work als usual :)
B.
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