Re: potato broke my everything!!
On Thu, 12 Aug 1999, Wonko wrote:
> i reinstalled linux using the base floppies and decided instead of
> apt-getting slink i'd go straight for potato. i updated the packages in
> dselect and then selected what packages to install after d/ling for 2
> days (250Mb) it finally finished but there were some errors in the end
> of install, i did update packages again and then i had to d/l 15mb more
> after that i did config and there was an error something like cannot
> execute script apt -configure. i shutdown (shutdown -h now didn't work
> but i payed no attention) when i restarted there was an error saying
You have been bitten by the latest bash bug in potato, sorry :< The best
recovery solution is to get a rescue disk, mount your hard drive and then
use dpkg-deb or ar to extract bash by hand. From the rescue disk these
commands might work:
mount /dev/hd?? /mnt
cd mnt
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=./lib/
usr/bin/dpkg-deb --extract var/cache/apt/archives/bash*.deb /mnt/
sync
cd /
umount /mnt
sync
<reboot>
I haven't tested exactly that sequence from the rescue disk, but I have
verified that the crucial command, dpkg-deb, does work fine.
Jason
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