Re: no correct boot after update of libpcre | debian amd64 unstable

[Clive Menzies <clive@clivemenzies.co.uk>]

On (11/11/05 13:27), Thomas Drillich wrote:
> after update of libpcre the initscripts can't run, cause
> of the dependency of grep on /usr/lib/libpcre.
> 
> /usr may not on the root filesystem, it could be on another
> partition or disc and grep is used in the mounting scripts.
> 
> So should libpcre installed in /lib or grep should be independend from 
> libpcre.
> 
> grep version 2.5.1.ds2-3
> libpcre version 6.4-1

It isn't an amd64 specific problem.
There are 5 critical bug reports on this:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?which=pkg&data=grep&archive=no&version=&dist=unstable

A temporary fix is to copy the libpcre.so.3 from /usr/lib to /lib

Regards

Clive

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