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

[Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>]

Aurelien Jarno a écrit :
> 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?
> 

Also the output of 'find /lib' would be really useful, even with the old
libc version.

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