on Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 09:56:44PM -0400, David A. Greene (greened@eecs.umich.edu) wrote: > Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > on Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 03:36:49PM -0400, David A. Greene (greened@eecs.umich.edu) wrote: > > >>apt downloaded everything but when dpkg was unpacking libc6, > >>my machine locked up. Ok, so that's one problem that needs > >>to be looked into. > >> > > > > Unless I'm missing something, this post might better be directed to > > debian-user rather than debian-devel. > > I don't think so. There was a problem with apt/dpkg installing > libc6 from unstable. This is not an ordinary user problem. In > any event, installing libc6 manually with dpkg seems to have > solved the problem. It doesn't explain why I got a machine lock-up, > though or why apt didn't recover gracefully. Note this is sent to list and David Greene. I'd sent an off-list mail, with a suggestion, not a directive. I'd checked briefly on your userid and didn't find other messages, thought you might have been a newbie confused over appropriate list for topic. Please do not reply to private, off-list, mail on list. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org Free Dmitry! Boycott Adobe! Repeal the DMCA! http://www.freesklyarov.org Geek for Hire http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html
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