Bug#551158: Libc6: exim4 Segfault in libc-2.7.so

[Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>]

Fabio Rosciano a écrit :
> Ok, I took a shortcut.
> I booted a livecd and I mounted the / partition of the laptop.
> Then I downloaded the following files:
> 
> libc6_2.9-27_amd64.deb
> libc6-dev_2.9-27_amd64.deb
> libc6-i386_2.9-27_amd64.deb
> 
> and unpacked them in the newly mounted directory:
> 
> $ dpkg-deb -X /tmp/where/the/root/is/mounted
> 
> The system now boots normally.
> I reinstalled the three aforementioned debs, had to do some cleanup
> (installing the correct versions of libc-bin, libc-dev-bin and locales)
> and then rebooted. The system is now back to normal.
> 
> So I am afraid the problem is in libc6-2.10.1-2.
> 
> I hope this helps other who have this problem, it's not clean but it
> works.

This problem is reported a very different glibc versions, some I am
clearly not convinced that version 2.10.1 is the problem. Can you try to
upgrade again to see if you are able to reproduce the problem each time?

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