Re: Woody broke my system
On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Joey Tsai wrote:
> Need to get 0B/2426kB of archives. After unpacking 2925kB will be freed.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
> perl: /lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.2' not found (required by /usr/lib/libdb.so.3)
> E: Sub-process /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt returned an error code (1)
> E: Failure running script /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt
>
> Uh...
Yes.. you must comment out the line in /etc/apt/apt.conf that mentions
debconf until you can get perl working again.
> [corban][02:50pm][/var/cache/apt/archives] # dpkg -i libc6_2.1.94-1_i386.deb
> dpkg: `ldconfig' not found on PATH.
> dpkg: 1 expected program(s) not found on PATH.
> NB: root's PATH should usually contain /usr/local/sbin, /usr/sbin and /sbin.
You must use the --force-bad-path option to dpkg. You should be very
careful to get ldconfig back and then restore libc6 then upgrade the
packages that need to be upgraded to get around the db breakage.
Jason
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