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Bug#630608: [bash] Everything Segfaults After lib6 -7 Upgrade



Le 21/06/2011 15:48, David Baron a écrit :
>> * * * * *
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>> > > > > So to clean up this system, would I:
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>> > > > > 1. remove ALL 2.11.2 files in /lib (making sure there are no
> 
>> > > > > symlinks to them).
> 
>> > > > > 2. NOW, re-upgrade to 2.13-7
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>> > > > >
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>> > > > > What happened before:
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>> > > > > 1. I myself placed the 2.11.2 files from the live CD.
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>> > >
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>> > > The question is why did you do that initially? Because of a failed
> 
>> > > upgrade to version 2.13-6 or -7 or for an unrelated issue?
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>> >
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>> > I did that to get a working shell, system again.
> 
>>
> 
>> When did you got the initial problem? When upgrading from 2.13-6? from
> 
>> 2.13-7?
> 
> When the 2.13-6 upgrade failed, I accidently (my fault) lost a file.
> When I could not find it from where I can moved it (it was there, in
> fact a symlink I could have remade easily enough but ...) I copied the
> 2.11 files to get up and running again.
> 
>>
> 
>> > > > > 2. Subsequent upgrade to 2.13-7 LEFT SYMLINKS TO THESE,
> apparently.
> 
>> > >
> 
>> > > Actually ldconfig creates links for 2.11.2 files in /lib. We have a
> 
>> > > script to detect old ld.so in /lib, it looks like we have to extend it
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>> > > for all files from libc6.
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>> >
> 
>> > If I am upgrading away from 2.11, then I obviously do NOT want these.
> 
>>
> 
>> When upgrading from 2.11, the files are removed by dpkg, and thus are
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>> not created. In your case you added the files manually, so they were not
> 
>> handled by dpkg.
> 
> OK, but there very presense stimulated ldconfig or whateve to symlink
> them and that was fatal!
> 
> 
>>
> 
>> > > > OK, I did it. The 2.11.2 files were left around for now, nothing
> 
>> > > > symlinks to them.
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>> > > >
> 
>> > > > It was a bit hairy over the original bug for the non-dpkg-owned
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>> > > > ld.so... Removing it always left me hosed. Finally replaced the
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>> > > > ld-linux one with the
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>> > >
> 
>> > > ld.so actually had to be removed, but some more files with it.
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>> >
> 
>> > The original bug:
> 
>> > Action: Remove and then try again -- this will leave many/most users
> with
> 
>> > a hosed system!
> 
>> > Alternatives:
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>> > Place proper ld-linux and then remove obselete ld.so stuff -- This is
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>> > what I discovered. Script could do this.
> 
>> > Leave alone and proceed -- could be dangerous so the above is best.
> 
>>
> 
>> When did you get this issue exactly? It is true that 2.13-6 leaves the
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>> ld.so and thus might break the system, but 2.13-7 refuses to upgrade in
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>> that case.
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> 2.13-6 refused to proceed but with a more cryptic error message
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> 2.13-7 correctly named the offending file.
> 
> Unfortunately, simply removing was also fatal. I created an alternative
> ld-linux symlink and then the upgrade could proceed. Why I say the
> script should take care of this!
> 
> 
>> * * * * * *
> 
>> > > > The system works, except I still have the iconv problems which I did
> 
>> > > > not have before. So some advice on how to fix this would be most
> 
>> > > > welcome.
> 
>> > >
> 
>> > > Given you had a very strange system, I would suggest to run: 'apt-get
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>> > > install --reinstall libc6''
> 
>> >
> 
>> > This was done. The iconv problems remain. No man pages, no synaptic (not
> 
>> > the worst) and miscelaneous problems, some harmless elsewhere.
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>> >
> 
>> > Could this iconv thing be another bug in libc6, or is there something
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>> > else that needs be reinstalled?
> 
>>
> 
>> iconv files have been moved from /usr/lib/gconv to /usr/lib/i386/gconv
> 
>> between version 2.13-5 and 2.13-7. If you have a system with a mix of
> 
>> both versions installed, it might explain the issue. Please also check
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>> you have no file left in /lib with 2.11 or 2.13 in their name.
> 
> OK, I got rid of the 2.11 files.
> 
> 
> I, of course, did not touch the 2.13 ones. There are actually only a few
> of them but are locally symlinked. There would be three version of
> these, on /lib, lib/i386-gnu... and /lib/i686/cmov. The ones I checked a
> all different.
> 
> 
> Should the /lib ones be actually be removed? Should their symlinks be
> first changed to the i386 versions (like others in /lib ... and why is
> there an i686/cmov if it is not being used?) Hopefully this can be
> achieved without (temporarily) hosing the system. Another reason I feel
> the scripts should handle this stuff. All the 2.13 files are legal-dpkg
> items.

There should not be any 2.13 file in /lib/ and /lib/i686/cmov should not
exist anymore. If all these 2.13 files are legal dpkg, can you please
tell us in which packages they are and in which versions?

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Aurelien Jarno                          GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73
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