Bug#315011: entire machine hangs after upgrading libc6
On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 07:52:54AM +0800, Cameron Patrick wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 19, 2005 at 09:06:17PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
>
> > > Upgrading from libc6 2.3.2.ds1-21 to 2.3.2.ds1-22 causes my laptop to
> > > hang (no response from network, even magic sysrq doesn't work) at the
> > > "unpacking files to replace libc6" stage. I've tried this a few times
> > > with different kernels - 2.6.12-rc3, 2.6.11-rc3 and the Debian-packaged
> > > 2.6.9-1-686 - and also with the "experimental" libc6 2.3.5-1, with the
> > > same result.
>
> > That would have to be a kernel bug. Most probably you have a corrupted
> > filesystem.
>
> Thanks for the quick response, it turns out that you were quite right.
> A reiserfsck found and fixed a few problems on my root partition, and
> after that I was able to complete the upgrade.
>
> Unfortunately I didn't think ahead to take an image of the partition,
> so this means that now I'm also unable to reproduce the bug :-(
That is a bit undfortunate, but its good to hear your system is up and
running. I think it would be best to close this bug and reopen it if the
situation re-occurs, it may well have been a hardware-level corruption.
Any objections?
--
Horms
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