Re: Upgrading libc6 problem
On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 05:22:00PM +0200, Michel D?nzer wrote:
> 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?
Actually, you're right - it should do. I should have tried that first, but
I just went for the big hammer.
The problem (I think) is that the libc6 postinst script calls
/etc/init.d/inetd restart before some other important piece is upgraded. At
least, that's what I gather from reading the rest of the thread I
referenced above.
Vinod
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