update problems
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Last weekend I attempted to update my [small home] server (with a dselect
update) to the latest version of "testing". I was previously running testing
but I had not updated it for several months
It failed - disasterously - in that everything started crashing and I ended
up restoring from backup
I tried it again this weekend (I assumed the problem was a temporary blip -
since query on this list brought no response), but it has failed in exactly
the same way.
It seems to be updating libc6 at the time - and as soon as it has updated,
dpkg gets no further (it starts seg faulting) and much of the rest of the
system doesn't work either. Applications segfault - ssh eventually kills its
connection - attempt to login on the main console fails and even starting
linux with the init=/bin/sh command line just hangs..
In the end I had to recover by restoring the whole of /lib (and its
subdirectories) from a backup. I tried just restoring /lib/libc* and
/lib/i686/libc* but that didn't work
Trouble is now I am stuck. How do I get my "testing" configuration up to
date?
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Alan - alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk
http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk
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