Re: apt && woody.
On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > anyway, after hours of upgrading over a 28.8K modem the process
> > has finished. However something now seems broken with apt-get
> > I did notice a warning about name resolution and the new C
> > library when installing the new packages. Perhaps a reboot might
> > fix the following problem:
I also have seen this problem happen with woody after upgrading
post libc/libdb issues. I didn't see it before at all. A reboot hasn't
helped.
> I've heard this many times.. I have no idea what causes it.. it should not
> be happening, the getaddrinfo call should never return something that
> causes the message you see!
>
> If you find out what this is please let me know..
It would be useful, Jason, to understand what the message means:
something wicked happened is pretty vague.
Is the problem the DNS failed, or what? This is a case where a clearer
error messgae would really help track down the problem.
no time right now to browse the sources, or else I would...
Seth
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