Re: glibc 2.7-3 MIGRATED to testing causes system to stop starting new programs
PieterB a écrit :
> Hello GNU libc maitainers,
>
> I don't now if this is a new bug, or an addition to bug
> #454266 or #454557, so I'm mailing the maintainers.
>
> Today I ran into severe problems after doing a 'apt-get update && apt-get
> upgrade'. My previous full update and upgrade was on 2007-12-05 20:25.
> See http://gewis.nl/~pieterb/tmp/dpkg.log for the tail of my dpkg.log.
>
> There were problems with upgrading libc to 2.7-3 and after that I could not
> start a lot of programs anymore. I tried installing libc 2.7-4 manualy with
> dpkg, but I couldn't get it done.
>
> I'll try to recover /var/lib/{apt,dpkg} and /lib from backup tommorow, but I
> think it would be good to either:
>
> - upgrade glibc to 2.7-4, or
> - downgrade glibc 2.6 in testing?
> to prevent other people like me from serious messing up their system.
If it is the same problem as the bug#454557, glibc 2.7-4 should now
refuse to install.
> I tried running 'dpkg -l libc6-i686' as suggested in Bug#454557 but it
> didn't work.
>
What do you mean by "it didn't work"? Also do you have a /lib/i686
directory? If yes removing it should fix your system.
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