Bug#740158: [libc6] Libc6, related packages smoked again
On Wednesday, 26 February, 2014 15:42:31 Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 04:27:26PM +0200, David Baron wrote:
> > On Wednesday, 26 February, 2014 15:20:25 Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> > > On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 04:12:04PM +0200, David Baron wrote:
> > > > On Wednesday, 26 February, 2014 14:59:44 Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> > > > > On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 03:00:23PM +0200, David Baron wrote:
> > > > > > Package: libc6
> > > > > > Version: 2.18-3
> > > > > > Severity: normal
> > > > > >
> > > > > > --- Please enter the report below this line. ---
> > > > > > Get error on upgrade, whether or not one chooses to stop services
> > > > > > and
> > > > > > proceed. In synaptic, says need to stop kdm. Did that, still got
> > > > > > the
> > > > > > error
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Thankfully, 2.18-3 where it did get installed is OK and not
> > > > > > breaking
> > > > > > because of what remains 2.17.
> > > > >
> > > > > Please describe the error you got (like copy and paste of the error
> > > > > message), without that it won't be possible to fix it.
> > > >
> > > > Preparing to unpack .../libc6_2.18-3_amd64.deb ...
> > > > Checking for services that may need to be restarted...
> > > > Checking init scripts...
> > > > dpkg: error processing archive
> > > > /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.18-3_amd64.deb>
> > > >
> > > > (--unpack):
> > > > subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
> > > >
> > > > Errors were encountered while processing:
> > > > /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.18-3_amd64.deb
> > > >
> > > > [ Rootkit Hunter version 1.4.0 ]
> > > >
> > > > File updated: searched for 170 files,
> > > > found 146
> >
> > E:
> > > > Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> > >
> > > Thanks for this information. Is there anything in dmesg related to libc
> > > in dmesg during this upgrade?
> >
> > dmesg | grep libc yield nothing
> >
> > > Also what is the output of "ls -l /lib64 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu" ?
> >
> > ~$ ls -l /lib64 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu
> > /lib64:
> > total 5468
> > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 136744 Feb 24 05:48 ld-2.18.so
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Feb 19 15:29 ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 ->
> > ld-2.17.so
> The problem is definitely this symlink which is wrong. Now i don't
> really understand how it happened that you have already a 2.18 libc in
> /lib64 and a 2.17 in /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu.
>
> Is your system really an i386 system with a 686-pae kernel like reported
> in the first mail or is it an amd64 one? Also what is the output of
> "dpkg -l 'libc6*'" and "dpkg -l libc-bin"?
i386. Considering crossgrading to amd64 which is probably why I have these
packages a while now. As I said, the symlink is probably left over from that
last episode. As I am not running 64bit right now, not effecting anything else
~$ dpkg -l libc6*
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-========================-=================-=================-
=====================================================
ii libc6:amd64 2.17-97 amd64 Embedded GNU
C Library: Shared libraries
iU libc6:i386 2.18-3 i386 Embedded GNU
C Library: Shared libraries
iU libc6-amd64 2.18-3 i386 Embedded GNU
C Library: 64bit Shared libraries for AM
ii libc6-dbg:i386 2.17-97 i386 Embedded GNU
C Library: detached debugging symbols
iU libc6-dev:amd64 2.18-3 amd64 Embedded GNU
C Library: Development Libraries and Hea
iU libc6-dev:i386 2.18-3 i386 Embedded GNU
C Library: Development Libraries and Hea
iU libc6-dev-amd64 2.18-3 i386 Embedded GNU
C Library: 64bit Development Libraries f
iU libc6-dev-x32 2.18-3 i386 Embedded GNU
C Library: X32 ABI Development Libraries
un libc6-i386 <none> <none> (no
description available)
ii libc6-i686:i386 2.17-97 i386 Embedded GNU
C Library: Shared libraries [i686 optimi
ii libc6-udeb 2.17-97 i386 Embedded GNU
C Library: Shared libraries - udeb
iU libc6-x32 2.18-3 i386 Embedded GNU
C Library: X32 ABI Shared libraries for
un libc6.1 <none> <none> (no
description available)
un libc6.1-dev <none> <none> (no
description available)
~$ dpkg -l libc-bin
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-========================-=================-=================-
=====================================================
ii libc-bin 2.17-97 i386 Embedded GNU
C Library: Binaries
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