Bug#315011: entire machine hangs after upgrading libc6

[Cameron Patrick <cameron@patrick.wattle.id.au>]

Package: libc6
Version: 2.3.2.ds1-22
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks the whole system

Upgrading from libc6 2.3.2.ds1-21 to 2.3.2.ds1-22 causes my laptop to
hang (no response from network, even magic sysrq doesn't work) at the
"unpacking files to replace libc6" stage.  I've tried this a few times
with different kernels - 2.6.12-rc3, 2.6.11-rc3 and the Debian-packaged
2.6.9-1-686 - and also with the "experimental" libc6 2.3.5-1, with the
same result.

I'm not sure whether this is a glibc or kernel bug (or both!) and I'm
not sure whether this bug severity is deserved but I figure someone
who knows more about libc than I will be able to point the bug where
it belongs :-)

Cheers,

Cameron.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-rc3-cjp-kant
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages libc6 depends on:
ii  libdb1-compat                 2.1.3-7    The Berkeley database routines [gl

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