Bug#219025: reverting to 2.3.2.ds1-8 doesn't help
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 04:18:28PM -0500, Brenda J. Butler wrote:
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> Two days ago I had installed minimum stable system on a laptop (IBM T21)
> (from CD, Woody 3.0) and apt-get dist-upgraded to sid, then installed 400+
> packages (X Windows, KDE, etc) (used dpkg --set-selections from pkg
> list of another similar laptop) and it all worked (stock kernel 2.2
> installed, then compiled kernel 2.4 (pretty much stock, one or two
> modules added in but no patches) for it and that worked too).
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> Then re-thought the partitioning, repartitioned, re-installed yesterday,
> and had the libc6 ldconfig "illegal instruction" problem.
>
> Then thought, "it worked yesterday, why not revert back libc6
> a version" tried that (libc6, locales, and libc6-dev, maybe one or
> two others under libc/libc6 from snapshot.debian.net (2.3.2.ds1-8)
> and still got illegal instruction with ldconfig (still with kernel 2.2).
> Perhaps I did it wrong. To get stuff to complete installation,
> I replaced /sbin/ldconfig with /bin/true (removing /sbin/ldconfig
> results in dkpg complaining that it can't find it), and put in some
> symbolic links manually in /usr/lib to /usr/X11R6/lib to get X to run
> (but KDE never ran properly).
>
> Unfortunately my compiled kernel was blown away in the re-install,
> I will try to compile a new one but not sure how that will go
> with a broken libc6. I suppose it should go ok, presumably
> the kernel doesn't need ldconfig?
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> Finally, I straced the ldconfig to see where it barfs. It
> barfs "illegal instruction" after the uname call.
>
> HTH with the bug tracking.
>
> This is my first bug report (supplementary report to an existing bug)
> to BTS, let me know if I should have done anything differently.
> Thanks.
This is still a known problem with 2.2 kernels. If you're just
installing the system, use something newer?
Otherwise it will be fixed in 2.3.2.ds1-10, whenever that is ready.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
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