Re: sid/i386 upgrade problem
Interesting -- I upgraed a couple 2.4 boxes and they were OK ... and
others reported the same; but good to know (and report) that all may not
be well in 2.4land either.
On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 05:30:41PM +0100, Russell Coker wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Dec 2002 17:08, Hank Marquardt wrote:
> > thanks Russell -- it's worse than that though ... dpkg won't work either
> > ... I had to manually get an old libc by using ar and tar on an old deb
> > in the tmp directory, then do an export LD_PRELOAD of that lib ... that
> > got basic stuff back and i was able then downgrade properly with dpkg --
> > it seems to only effect folks running 2.2 level kernels ... a bug has
> > been filed.
>
> Just to clarify, the problem may only be as severe as you experienced on 2.2
> kernels, but the problem I experienced happens on 2.4 kernels.
>
> I don't want anyone to think that they are safe just because they use a
> 2.4kernel.
>
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