Bug#206242: libc6 installation segfaults and leaves mixed libs in /lib
Can you please try with the kernel-image-2.6.0-test2-1-386 package?
That's what I'm using here and it's working fine.
Tks,
Jeff Bailey
On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 02:33:01AM +1000, Paul.Hampson@anu.edu.au wrote:
> Package: libc6
> Version: 2.3.2-2
> Severity: critical
> Justification: Breaks whole system
>
> Running Linux kernel 2.5.68:
> Installing libc6-2.3.2-2 produces the following output:
> Suu:~# dpkg -i -D3 /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6* /var/cache/apt/archives/locales_2.3.2-2_all.deb
> (Reading database ... 63496 files and directories currently installed.)
> Preparing to replace libc6 2.3.1-16 (using .../libc6_2.3.2-2_i386.deb) ...
> D000001: process_archive oldverionstatus=installed
> D000002: maintainer_script_alternative nonexistent prerm '/var/lib/dpkg/info/libc6.prerm'
> D000002: fork/exec /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/preinst ( )
> Unpacking replacment libc6 ...
> D000002: fork/exec /var/lib/dpkg/info/libc6.postrm ( )
> dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.3.2-2_i386.deb (--install)
> dpkg: warning - old post-removal script killed by signal (Segmentation fault)
>
> D000002: fork/exec /var/lib/dpkg/info/libc6.preinst ( )
> dpkg: error while cleaning up:
> subprocess pre-installation script killed by signal (Segmentation fault)
> Preparing to replace libc6-dev 2.3.1-16 (using .../libc6_2.3.2-2_i386.deb) ...
> D000001: process_archive oldverionstatus=installed
> D000002: maintainer_script_alternative nonexistent prerm '/var/lib/dpkg/info/libc6-dev.prerm'
> D000002: fork/exec /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/preinst ( )
> Unpacking replacment libc6-dev ...
> D000002: maintainer_script_alternative nonexistent postrm '/var/lib/dpkg/info/libc6-dev.postrm'
> D000001: process_archive updating info directory
> D000001: process_archive info installed /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/preinst as /var/lib/dpkg/info//libc6-dev.preinst
> D000002: process_archive tmp.ci script/file '.' contains dot
> D000002: process_archive tmp.ci script/file '..' contains dot
> D000002: process_archive tmp.ci script/file '/var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/control' is control
> Preparing to replace locales 2.3.1-16 (using .../locales_2.3.2-2_all.deb)
> D000001: process_archive oldverionstatus=installed
> D000002: maintainer_script_alternative nonexistent prerm '/var/lib/dpkg/info/locales.prerm'
> D000002: maintainer_script_new nonexistent preinst '/var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/preinst'
> Unpacking replacement locales ...
> D000002: fork/exec /var/lib/dpkg/info/locales.postrm ( )
> D000001: process_archive updating info directory
> D000001: process_archive info installed /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/postinst as /var/lib/dpkg/info//locales.postinst
> D000001: process_archive info installed /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/conffiles as /var/lib/dpkg/info//locales.conffiles
> D000001: process_archive info installed /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/postrm as /var/lib/dpkg/info//locales.postrm
> D000001: process_archive info installed /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/templates as /var/lib/dpkg/info//locales.templates
> D000001: process_archive info installed /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/config as /var/lib/dpkg/info//locales.config
> D000002: process_archive tmp.ci script/file '.' contains dot
> D000002: process_archive tmp.ci script/file '..' contains dot
> D000002: process_archive tmp.ci script/file '/var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/control' is control
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libc6-dev:
> libc6-dev depends on libc6 (=2.3.2-2); however:
> Package libc6 is not installed.
> dpkg: error processing libc6-dev (--install)
> dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of locales:
> locales depends on glibc-2.3.2-2; however:
> Package glibc6-2.3.2-2 is not installed.
> dpkg: error processing locales (--install)
> dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.3.2-2_i386.deb
> libc6-dev
> locales
> -- End of horrendous transcribing...
>
> An ls -l /lib/*-2.3* shows the libc6 2.3.1 and 2.3.2 files happily
> sitting next to each other, the 2.3.1 dated March 22nd, the 2.3.2
> files dated August 6th. The other libraries inclued in the libc6
> package:
> ls -l /lib/lib*thread* /lib/libSegFault.so
> show that libpthread-0.10.so, libSegFault.so and libthread_db-1.0.so
> are all the March 22nd version. The 2.3.2 versions of these files,
> and any other files from the libc6-2.3.2-2 apart from /lib/*-2.3.2
> aren't unpackged anywhere I can see. Or have been unpacked, and
> cleaned up, maybe.
>
> The symlinks for the so-versioned files in the libc6 package are all
> pointing to the 2.3.1 versions.
>
> At this point (in previous experimentation) ldconfig will produce
> a system that segfaults on anything, apparently due to the mismatch
> of libpthread and libc.
>
> The other solution I have attempted was to get the new libpthread,
> libthread_db and libSegFault and put them in place (booting from
> the woody installation CD). If the old libpthread et al. are left
> in place (as *.so.org for example) ldconfig will choose them in
> preference to the 2.3.2 versions, and every command (even ldd and ln,
> which don't link to libpthread, just libc) segfault. ldconfig is OK.
> This includes the ldd from the 2.3.2 libc6 package.
>
> Leaving just the 2.3.2 versions and deleting the 2.3.1 versions of
> the un-so-versioned files also produces a system which is unbootable.
>
> Both cases of unbootability appear to be init segfaulting, but no
> error appears on screen. The last line of booting is:
> Frreing unused kernel memory: 164k freed
>
> I hope there's enough here to help with whatever is causing this,
> and/or gain some advice as to what I can try next. It would be nice
> if dpkg in debugging mode told me what parameters it was passing to
> the maintainer scripts so I could see what's segfaulting during the
> install.
>
> Aaargh. I just realised on this test run that I backed up the 2.3.1
> un-so-versioned /lib stuff to the ramdisk, not the target. So I may
> not be able to try any solutions that require a working system for a
> little while. :-( Not until after I find a working floppy disk...
>
> Hmm, that's interesting. If I use the old 2.3.1 so-named libraries,
> but the new un-so-named libraries, I can boot, but get that relocation
> error from 204930 from various processes during boot. (Those that link
> to libpthread, such as ls, but ldd and mv and ln work OK.)
>
> So I can successfully restore by running
> dpkg -i ~tbble/libc6* ~tbble/locales_2.3.1-16_all.deb.
>
> Oh, no I can't. dpkg-deb needs tar to extract, and tar uses libpthread.
> Blah. :-(
> dpkg-deb -x ~tbble/libc6_2.3.1-16_i386.deb .
> Failed.
> dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile ~tbble/libc6_2.3.1-16_i386.deb |cpio -i
> Worked! (For anyone else needed to recover easily from that level of
> stupidity)
> cp lib/libthread*-*.so lib/libSegFault.so /lib
> And now I can ls again! :-)
> I hope _that_ little sojourn helps people too.
>
> After all that I guess the problem appears to be that the libc-2.3.2.so
> in libc6-2.3.2-2 segfaults. I dunno how to debug it further than that.
> Suggestions welcome, but time is scarce before the weekend. :-(
>
> --
> Paul "TBBle" Hampson.
>
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