Re: Need advice regarding libc6, libdb2, exim, potato und sid
I sent this a week ago, and didn't get any replies. But I feel that my
issue is quite important for people who happen to work
cross-"distribution" between stable, unstable and testing. Surely
anybody here has a clue about db2 and libc6?
On Mon, 05 Feb 2001 05:56:29 +0100, Marc Haber
<debian-devel.lists.debian.org@marc-haber.de> wrote:
>I need advice (or pointer to relevant documentation) about db2, how
>its interaction with libc6 is and what changed from potato and sit
>regarding these packages.
>
>Rationale: I am currently trying to backport exim-3.22 from sid to
>potato. I have some exprience with backports, but the exim backport
>does definetely seem non-trivial. First, I try to satisfy
>Build-Depends:. There, I see libdb2-dev (>= 2.7.7-2.1) which caused me
>to backport libdb2 2.7.7-2.2 to potato. But there seems to be a
>problem, since installling "my" libdb2-dev gives a lot of error
>messages like:
>
>warning: trying to overwrite /usr/lib/libdb.a, which is also in
>package libc6-dev
>
>I now suspect, that libdb2 has been part of libc6 package before which
>was split for sid? Right?
>
>Anyway, my exim doesn't deliver any e-mail but segfaults until I
>replace "services: db files" with "servies: files" in
>/etc/nsswitch.conf. After this change, my exim runs fine. This seems
>to be related to bug #7489 which has been reported on ppc and m68k,
>but my architecture is i386.
>
>When I build a second exim after reinstalling potato's libc6-dev
>(probably restoring db2-headers from the library that is included with
>potato-libc6), this exim works even with unchanged /etc/nsswitch.conf,
>but for each mail a log message "failed to open DB file
>/var/spool/exim/db/wait-remote_smtp: Invalid argument" is generated.
>That file exists, but is zero bytes long and is recreated with zero
>bytes length after deleting it.
>
>Can anybody tell me what is going on here and enlighten me how to get
>out of this mess?
>
>Thanks for any comments.
Greetings
Marc
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