Re: 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?
In my opinion, the first thing you need seems to me to point the
offending package.
What about restoring the whole system from backup again and then
upgrading the packages one at a time? When you will be able to pin
point the offending package you might use the backup and revert to its
previous files and then try to isolate the problem further.
Alternatively, you might want to install woody from scratch using the
current version of the boot-floppies.
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>
> Alan - alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk
> http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk
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