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Bug#170635: libc6 2.3.1-3 to 2.3.1-5 upgrade breaks



Hi,

Magnus Danielson wrote:
> > > I got the "Device or resource busy" message as a reply. It's because the file
> > > is in use by many tools:
> > 
> > That shouldn't happen. "File in use" != "name in use". rm removes names,
> > not files.
[...]
> 
> > And you using something weird as your root file system? That is
> > something besides ext[23] or reiserfs?
> 
> EXT3. No strange options or anything. I can't think of any specific things
> other than over-generous selection of Debian/unstable packages.

I got the same message too on a previous upgrade (IIRC on 2.2.5-x).
/ was ext3. After resetting / to ext2 it worked. I did not know whz
then, and I do not know if that is a bug in glibc, dpkg or kernel.

Regards,

Rene

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