Bug#406619: libc6 [2.5-0exp3] dies on upgrade

[Thomas Krichel <krichel@openlib.org>]

  This is a followup to Soren's problem

http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-glibc@lists.debian.org/msg33650.html 

  I have had the same problem happening to me, two days ago,
  at an upgrade of the testing version. I followed the
  advice given here

http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-glibc@lists.debian.org/msg32520.html

  The machine is in NYC, USA am in Novosibirsk, Russia. 
  But I still have a root window.

  I did

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/lib/tls/i686/cmov /lib/tls/i686/cmov/ld-linux.so.2 \
/usr/bin/sudo /bin/cp /lib/tls/i686/cmov/ld-linux.so.2 /lib/

  but without the sudo, I think it worked. At first this
  appeared to have cleared the problem. 
 
  I then tried to complete the libc6 update with dselect.
  I have not been able to complete the update, because
  tzdata install failed. I then removed the /lib/tls, as suggested
  by Soren. 

  Now I am still in a fix.

fasolt:/lib# echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH
/lib/ld-linux-2.5.so:/usr/lib:/lib
fasolt:/lib# ls
Floating point exception
fasolt:/lib# dselect 
Illegal instruction
fasolt:/lib# find
Segmentation fault

  Trying something else

fasolt:/lib# LD_LIBRARY_PATH=
fasolt:/lib# ls
ls: error while loading shared libraries: librt.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
fasolt:/lib# dselect 
dselect: error while loading shared libraries: libm.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
fasolt:/lib# find
find: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

  Is there an $LD_LIBRARY_PATH that would give me 
  access only to the old versions of the library?

  Or do you think, I should ask my friend (who
  know as much about Linux as a cow about flying)
  that he reboots the machine by pressing the off
  button for a while and hope this all clear at
  reboot, despite the fact that the installation of
  libc6 is broken?


  Cheers,

  Thomas Krichel                    http://openlib.org/home/krichel
                                RePEc:per:1965-06-05:thomas_krichel
  phone: +1 631 236 9007                       skype: thomaskrichel


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