More info (was Re: what to do when libc6 upgrade goes bad)
Here is the error that was occurring when I attempted to reboot, as I
describe below:
/bin/sh: error in loading shared libraries
: undefined symbol: rl_ignore_some_completions_function
Dan wrote:
>
> Greetings--
>
> I just made an attempt at upgrading my installed libc6 using
> libc6_2.0.7.19981211-6.deb. I have a 2.0 complete install, but I was
> going to try GnuCash, which requires guile 1.3, which requires a few
> things that are newer than Deb2.0.
>
> Anyway, it didn't go so well, apparently, since some of the other libs
> that guile depends on didn't install due to errors, along the lines of
> "unable to link" or somesuch (I am embarrassed to say I did not write
> the message down, as I was rather frantic in short order).
>
> Having updated libc6, I didn't know whether a reboot was in order, since
> that is a fairly important library for just about everything. Well,
> this was a bad idea, since my machine hung rebooting, and then nothing
> would run once the kernel finished starting. Couldn't log in, rescue
> disk doesn't have dpkg, and I was sorta stuck, and sort of frantic
> (moreso, in fact).
>
> So I just reinstalled and reconfigured the base package using the debian
> installer, which turned out to be sort of okay... it had the desired
> effect of replacing libc6 with an older version, and it left almost
> everything else intact. (Actually, smail won't run anymore... it just
> bails on startup, despite the fact that the config files seem to be
> there... any thoughts?)
>
> The question, then, is what to do NEXT TIME I do something dumb like
> this... how can I avoid getting stuck in this situation, given that I
> have a 2.0 CD...
>
> Any suggestions appreciated, regarding the best way to backtrack when
> libc6 upgrades go bad, or how to get smail to run again.
>
> Thanks
> Dan Hugo
>
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