Bug#34442: libc6: Different format for /var/db/*.db
At 12:43 +0000 1999-03-13, russell@coker.com.au wrote:
Package: libc6
Version: 2.1.1-0pre1
When I installed the latest beta of libc6 I suddenly couldn't perform common
operations such as chown, ls (just reported UID/GID numbers), and network
operations. It seems that a different format is now being used for data in
/var/db/*.db. When I did "rm /var/db/*.db" and "make -C /var/db" things
worked fine.
Yeah, glibc 2.1's libdb is db 2.x instead of 1.8x as it was previously.
I believe that the correct solution to this problem is to have the postinst
of libc6 look for the presense of /var/db/*.db and if so rm all those files
and make them again.
I believe so too, I will do so in the next release.
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Joel Klecker (aka Espy) <URL:http://web.espy.org/>
<URL:mailto:jk@espy.org> <URL:mailto:espy@debian.org>
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