Bug#223769: libc6: Actually a kernel bug.

[Jeff Bailey <jbailey@nisa.net>]

On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 09:37:41AM +0900, GOTO Masanori wrote:

> >From glibc 2.3.2.ds1-8, libc6.preinst checks kernel version on mips
> because of this IPC issue.  I wonder why libc6.postrm in libc6 2.3.2-7
> causes this error.  Alexandre, please show us your kernel version.
> Moreover, please show us where your script was stopped.  I think the
> recent version should work.  Is this really "grave" bug?  Is this bug
> happened on other mips users' machines?

The clue I'm working on is this:

Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.3.2.ds1-10_mipsel.deb

It's mipsel, not mips.  My plan was to adjust libc.preinst so that it
picks up the minimum kernel version from the various sysdeps files.  The
only complication is hppa, which has strange kernel versions.  That way
it would be taken care of for everyone, whenever the minimum version was
updated.

Tks,
Jeff Bailey