RE: FW: anybody help me? dependency problem: no way back???

[Eric Cranley <ericc@Willis-Music.com>]

You are my savior. Thank you. Now before I continue with the upgrade I
should have done two months ago, are there any other major package conflicts
I should be aware of? I installed the system as sid in the first week of
December. I pinned the system to testing last week, and this morning's
problem was the first upgrade I tried. Here's what apt-get upgrade wants to
do:

The following packages will be upgraded:
  apache apache-common apache-utils apt-utils console-common console-data
  console-tools cpio dash dialog discover1 discover1-data dselect exim4
  exim4-base exim4-config exim4-daemon-light gettext-base grub initrd-tools
  initscripts libconsole libcupsys2-gnutls10 libdb3 libdb4.2 libdbi-perl
  libdiscover1 libgc1 libgcc1 libkrb53 libltdl3 libmysqlclient12
  libsigc++-1.2-5c102 login mailx mdadm module-init-tools modutils
  mysql-client mysql-common mysql-server netbase passwd perl perl-base
  perl-modules php4 rdate samba samba-common sysv-rc sysvinit webmin
  webmin-inetd webmin-samba
The following packages will be DOWNGRADED:
  e2fslibs e2fsprogs libacl1 libattr1 libblkid1 libbz2-1.0 libcomerr2
  libgcrypt11 libgnutls11 liblzo1 libreadline4 libss2 libtasn1-2 libuuid1
  mount procps util-linux zlib1g
55 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 18 downgraded, 0 to remove and 1 not
upgraded.

Is there anything I should really becareful of or install in a specific
order?
Thanks again for your help.

-----Original Message-----
From: Goswin von Brederlow [mailto:brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de] 
Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2005 3:12 PM
To: Eric Cranley
Cc: debian-amd64@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: FW: anybody help me? dependency problem: no way back???

Eric Cranley <ericc@Willis-Music.com> writes:

> I thought I had already upgraded base-files and libc6 after the move. I'll
> give your suggestion a try. I need to reinstall base-files as well (I
> removed it in a spectacular display of stupidity.) I can't even login at
the
> console right now, hence the part about using a live cd. I'll definitely
> write up a report on how I fixed it if I'm successful.

Removing the old base-files removed the /lib64 -> /lib link. That
means all dynamically linked binaries fail to find the ld.

/lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 /bin/ln -s /lib /lib64

of from a live CD just "ln -s /lib /mountpoint/lib64".

After that the system should work again and reinstalling libc6 will
get the /lib64 link owned by libc6 correctly.

MfG
        Goswin