Re: Disappearing ldconfig
----- Original Message -----
From: Eric G . Miller <egm2@jps.net>
To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Friday, November 03, 2000 10:41 PM
Subject: Re: Disappearing ldconfig
> On Sat, Nov 04, 2000 at 03:22:36AM -0500, John Kiff wrote:
> > I've been trying to install and upgrade a few packages, and whether I
> > use dpkg or apt-get, I ultimately get the following message before the
> > whole process grinds to a halt: "'ldconfig' not found in PATH". I
> > presume that I have inadvertently removed ldconfig in the course of
> > doing something else. My question is how do I get my ldconfig back?
>
> Instead of assuming ldconfig is missing, why don't you check? It may be
> some post-install script is incorrectly setting the $PATH variable. If
> it's missing for some reason reinstall libc6 (though I'd suspect a $PATH
> error). ls -l /sbin/ldconfig ...
>
There's no ldconfig in /sbin, or anywhere else, and my $PATH variable
includes /sbin, /usr/sbin and /usr/local/sbin. Hence, I tried to reinstall
libc6, but as you can see below, I ran into a brick wall. It kind of looks
like I'm in a vicious circle. I need to install libc6 to get ldconfig, but I
need ldconfig to install libc6. How can I resolve this?
John Kiff
debian:/var/cache/apt/archives# apt-get install libc6
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these:
Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
libc6-dev: Depends: libc6 (= 2.1.3-10) but 2.1.96-1 is to be installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or
specify a solution).
debian:/var/cache/apt/archives# apt-get install libc6-dev
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these:
Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
libart2: Depends: libc6 (>= 2.1.94) but 2.1.3-10 is to be installed
libc6-dev: Depends: libc6 (= 2.1.96-1) but 2.1.3-10 is to be installed
libdb2: Depends: libc6 (>= 2.1.94) but 2.1.3-10 is to be installed
libdb2-util: Depends: libc6 (>= 2.1.94) but 2.1.3-10 is to be
installed
libnss-db: Depends: libc6 (>= 2.1.93) but 2.1.3-10 is to be installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or
specify a solution).
debian:/var/cache/apt/archives# apt-get -f install
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
libc6 libc6-dev
2 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 152 not
upgraded.
5 packages not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/4576kB of archives. After unpacking 4354kB will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y
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.
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
debian:/var/cache/apt/archives# dpkg --install libc6_2.1.3-10_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.
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