Re: libc6-i686 upgrade 2.7-18lenny4 -> libc6_2.11.2-10

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

Hi again,

Markus Niewerth wrote:

> it was the latest lenny release wich i used. The complete system
> was lenny at least.

I assume that means dpkg 1.14.31.  Well, it was worth trying. :)

> Something in the libc6.preinst returned 139.

This is unfortunately a fairly generic error --- it means some program
tried to dereference memory it shouldn't have.

> As it seems it came from the function check_dirs().

How do you deduce this?  The "Checking init scripts..." line that
was printed before the first segfault is from the body of the "if [
"$type" = upgrade ]" block in squeeze's libc6.preinst.

> The libc6 stoped all regarding init.d scripts
> and after it produced that error.

I suppose I would suggest asking about this on debian-user or
debian-user-german and perhaps filing a bug at upgrade-reports for
reference.  It's puzzling --- I haven't heard of this happening
before.

Thanks and sorry I have no better ideas,
Jonathan