libc6 and recent testing upgrades
Hi,
I'm not confident enough to submit this as a bug report, so I thought I
would post these comments to the maintainers list here.
Please forward this to relevent person/party if I've sent this to the
wrong place :-(
I'm currently running testing (i386). On Friday last week I did an apt-get
update/upgrade on my system, which included a new libc6 and whole heap
of new packages.
Shortly after, I noticed things like /bin/ls, /usr/bin/tar, and other
utilities failing.
For example, I tried to do an "ls -l /usr/src/linux" and it would freeze,
consuming 100% and consuming memory (up to around 400Mb when I killed it).
I also could not extract any .tar.gz files. Tar failed in a similar way.
I restored my system from backups to _before_ I did the upgrade, and
everything worked fine. I then did the apt-get update/upgrade again and
tested various commands. I was able to re-create the above problems.
I then restored my system a second time, held back libc6 with
"dpkg --set-selections" and upgraded. Everything worked fine (and is
still working).
The only thing different about my system is that I am running XFS 1.1
and a patched XFS kernel.
I also checked my memory with memtest86 and it passed all tests.
Are you aware of any issues with libc6 and testing? I'm at a loss to
figure out what caused this problem. And I am really scared of upgrading
now! :(
cheers,
Ian.
--
Ian Charles, ian@semisphere.org
"The number of Unix installations has grown to 10, with more expected."
-- The Unix Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June, 1972
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