Bug#629534: libc6: Dynamic linker assertion failed after upgrade, nothing startable anymore

[Sven-Haegar Koch <haegar@sdinet.de>]

On Tue, 7 Jun 2011, Dima wrote:

> > > But it was in an inline function in that header, so if some binary
> > > package was built on a machine with ancient libc6-dev, that could be a
> > > half-explanation.  Where do you get your binary packages from?
> >
> > ftp.de.debian.org
> >
> I also get my packages from ftp.de.debian.org
> 
> > But the system has been updated on Debian Unstable since Debian Woody
> > (and moved from PC to PC, from harddisk to harddisk, without reinstall).
> >
> 
> Mine is also quite old, I've been running unstable for the last 10 years.

Just to verify - could you check if you also have got an /lib/ld.so 
file?

As you wrote that you are still logged into it you should be able to do 
the following:

$ cd /lib
$ echo ld*

(and then looking in the output)

c'ya
sven-haegar

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