On Sat, 2003-07-12 at 17:33, Mich Lanners wrote:
> To those that are tracking unstable and haven't noticed (or haven't been
> caught :-) yet:
I've been caught allright. And recovery was a 3 hour process!
If anyone needs the libc6 2.3.1-16 packages, they can get it from
ftp.debian.org. If not, mail me, and I'll upload it to my web space.
If you can't downgrade, then the best thing to do is to get
libc6-2.3.1-16, dpkg -X it (ie extract it to somewhere safe, ie /root)
remove libc6-2.3.1-17 (this will make your system break!), and then boot
using a cd (like debian install), mount your disk, and do a cp -dpRvf
of the extracted to your target disk. Then reboot, and dpkg --install
your libc6-2.3.1-16 just to sat dependencies and make things clean.
When this problem occured for me, I could not install libc6-2.3.1-16
because I couldn't even chroot. So extracting by hand and then
reinstalling was the only option really.
\LaShI
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