Re: Upgrading libc6 problem

[Michel Dänzer <daenzer@relog.ch>]

Vinod Kurup wrote:

> I just did an apt-get upgrade on my unstable powerpc machine and it
> upgraded libc6.
> 
> shortly thereafter, I started getting this message in my syslog:
> 
> May 28 22:10:05 localhost inetd[2673]: getpwnam: mail: No such user
> 
> And my mail stopped being delivered. Thanks to the magic of google, I found
> this message from Colin Watson:
> 
> <http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-0009/msg01990.html>
> 
> Quoting:
> 
> > Going down to single-user mode and then back up to runlevel 2 seems to
> > have fixed most such problems. Sending a SIGHUP to inetd, as libc6's
> > postinst does via '/etc/init.d/inetd restart', is not enough - it needs
> > to be stopped and started again.
> 
> So i went to runlevel 1 and then back to 2 and everything was back to
> normal. Just thought I'd mention it in case it happens to anyone
> else.

/etc/init.d/inetd restart

wouldn't do?


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