Re: serious package management problem
On Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 01:22:57PM +0100, A.R. (Tom) Peters wrote:
> I think this is what happenend to my system. I tried to install
> whatever was the current g77 compiler. It required libc6-2.2.4-5; I had a
> lower version, which got replaced. But this broke (ba)sh, version 2.05-8,
> which depends on libc6-2.2.3-7 or higher. This breaks everything,
> including apt and dpkg, which spawn shells all the time.
Wow this is a mess. (I do not see similar problem though. I upgraded
last night) Did you do
# apt-get update
# apt-get install bash
Or just used dpkg -i bash... ?
> Upgrading bash first will not help, because it will not work with the old
> libc6; c.q. the new libc6 will be installed first anyway because the
> new bash depends on it; but then the upgrade process crashes because the
> old bash doesn't work with the new bash...
Latest bash on testing/unstable are 2.05a-2 and
Depends: base-files (>= 2.1.12)
Pre-Depends: libc6 (>= 2.1.2), libncurses5
So should not be a problem.
> I would appreciate if someone e-mail me a libc6-2.2.3-7.so (naked i386
> binary, NO .deb package - or tell me how to extract the binary from a
> .deb) - hoping that just replacing the damn thing will save me.
You still have old debs at /var/cache/apt/archives? Then you can
extract it with "ar" command or "dpkg" command.
But to me easiest fix is to install a new bash from testing.
In either case it may be easiest to have small 2nd system installed on
your hard disk as 2nd Linux system (or have some 2ndary shell like sash
installed on your system) for system recovery. I usually have 2nd linux
system as dual boot. I can mount broken system to /target and
install needed packages with "dpkg -root /target -i package.deb"
from functioning system.
If you still have somewhat functioning system, why not update/upgrade
through apt-get? If bash segfaults, use sash, ash, pdksh... It may
work.
Cheers:-)
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