Re: HORROR!: System in unstable state....
On Mon, Jun 07, 1999 at 09:28:38AM -0700, Brent Fulgham wrote:
> I was installing a few packages from the archive that I hadn't gotten
> around to doing (like the new hurd*.deb, etc.) when I came across
> the libnfslock deb file. Unfortunately, this is not a hurd package
> (or if it is, it's really, really bad), because when dpkg -i finished
> with it, everything locked up complaining that the linker could not
> resolve some symbols in nfslock.so
This is really a good horror story... I will try not to dreamof it.
The full error message would be nice, but don't worry if you forgot it. I
can always try myself.
[...]
> And it still stop in the exec server....
>
> Any idea what else I can try? Or should I just wipe the partition
> and reinstall...
Try to delete /etc/ld.so.preload. If that is not the culprit, I don't know.
> Luckily I managed to upload vim-5.3b series before this happened.
> This is supposed to provide X support, but I find it doesn't really
> because it tries to link to the athena widgets, which we don't have
> yet! :)
:)
> Help!
*laugh* I build this package, it's part of liblockfile or so. better not
install it, it shouldn't be necessary anyway. I was not aware that it may be
harmful.
Hope it helps,
Marcus
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