Re: glibc2.1 and potato
You lucky chap, you have just been saved from a lot of trouble ;-)
Do not try to install glibc2.1 on a sun4m. Search the archives for recent
posts by Ben Collins and me on the libc6 problem.
Till you get a go-ahead on this list, hold libc6 at 2.0.x level
Regards,
On Tue, 11 May 1999, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote:
> Hi Debian users,
> I tried to upgrade my Sun Sparc 5 to potato and this error occurs:
> What I can do?
> Have a nice day, Paulo Henrique
>
> Preparing to replace libc6 2.0.105-2 (using .../libc6_2.1.1-5_sparc.deb)
> ...
> WARNING: Your sun4m cpu is known to have problems with
> the current glibc 2.1.1. To avoid problems, this libc6
> install will fail. When the conflicts are resolved, a
> version will be installed that does not fail this check.
> dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.1.1-5_sparc.deb
> (--unpack):
> subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.1.1-5_sparc.deb
> E: Sub-process returned an error code (1)
>
>
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