Re: How I fixed my trashed Debian system
>>Rick Macdonald wrote:
>OK. If this helps just one person I think it's worth typing up. I welcome
>any suggestions of things I may have missed fixing or cleaning up.
>
>My system has been up-to-date with unstable for over a year and a half
>without problems. I stopped making updates a few weeks ago when Bruce said
>that it wasn't in a working state due to the ongoing conversion to libc6.
...
FWIW, my box has been in sync with unstable since [never released] debian-1.0
and it still is, including libc6-dev stuff. At the moment you need to put
3 packages on hold for this to work:
libc5-5.4.33-[>3],
locales,
libgdbm1.
I think you can't install libgdbmg1 without upgrading libgdbm1 first, so
this has to go, too.
(I was able to fix my box by manually downgrading the 2 libraries. Note
that I was upgrading only a handful of packages, so it didn't exactly look
like all hell broke loose; the box worked except for perl.)
As usual, this works for me, YMMV.
Hope this helps somebody.
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