Re: upgraded libc6 and libc6 and broke my system (Woody)
Those who run woody should probably subscribe to the debian-devel list.
There was a warning about the db2 problem (not that it stopped me from
upgrading). 8^(
Today there have been messages on debian-devel about several programs
that have exhibited problems are in the process of being recompiled
with the new libs. Hopefully it will be safe to go back into the water
soon.
In the meantime, I (and presumably) several others are limping along
with partly broken systems.
I recall similar difficulties with potato.
Bob
On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 01:58:39PM -0600, montefin wrote:
> Hi, I'm in a somewhat similar situation to Bryan (below), except I
> didn't upgrade.
>
> My last woody upgrade was about a week and a half ago. Luckily, I posted
> the 'Paranoid's Question' to this list yesterday (9/26 at 18:54 MDT)
> just before attempting another upgrade.
>
> The cautionary replies I received, re: libc6 upgrade, led me to hold off
> hitting the ENTER key.
>
> This morning, of course, I'm glad I waited and feel bad for those who
> ran into difficulties.
>
> I just ran:
>
> dpkg --status libc6 libc6-dev [which returned current versions as
> 2.1.3-10]
> dpkg --status libdb2 libdb2++ [which returned current versions as
> 2:2.7.7-2]
> dpkg --status xlib6 xlib6g xlib6g-dev [which returned current versions
> as 3.3.6-10]
> dpkg --status ldso [which returned a current version of 1.9.11-9]
>
> Then I ran
>
> apt-get update
> apt-get --simulate upgrade
>
> And got a preview that would upgrade 51 packages, including
>
> libc6
> libc6-dev
> libdb2
> libdb2++
> xlib6
> xlib6g
> xlib6g-dev
>
> AFAICT, the following packages are _not_ installed on my system:
> libc6-dbg, libc6-bin, libdb2-util
>
> Now I'm in a holding pattern regarding woody. My question is how long
> can I maintain this holding pattern before woody proceeds too far beyond
> me to do a simple 'apt-get upgrade'?
>
> Thanks for any guidance,
>
> montefin
>
>
> Bryan Walton wrote:
> >
> > Hi, I have been following this thread today, very closely. Here is my question,I did an apt-get -f install dist-upgrade (in unstable) this morning (as well as yesterday). So, I am sure that I am running this libc6 package that is breaking everything for everybody. However, I haven't had any problems (so far). Exim is still working fine. What does this mean? Should I count my blessings? Or will this libc6 package start breaking things only if I reboot?
> > Just trying to be pre-emptive here.
> >
>
>
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