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Re: strange apt-get upgrade issue



At 22:15 8/10/2002 +0800, Crispin Wellington wrote:
On Tue, 2002-10-08 at 14:59, Chris McCormick wrote:
> At 18:32 7/10/2002 +0800, Crispin Wellington wrote:
>
> >ls -alF /lib/libc[-.]*
> >
> >-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       888096 Sep 26 02:30
> >/lib/libc-2.1.3.so*
> >lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           13 Oct  7 18:17 /lib/libc.so.6
> >-> libc-2.1.3.so*
>
> Same except i also have libc5 installed.
>
>
> Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
> | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
> |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
> ||/ Name                          Version                       Description
> +++-=============================-=============================-==========================================================================
> ii  tar                           1.13.17-2                     GNU tar
> ii  libc6                         2.1.3-23                      GNU C
> Library: Shared libraries and Timezone data
> ii  dpkg                          1.6.15                        Package
> maintenance system for Debian
> ii  apt                           0.3.19                        Advanced
> front-end for dpkg
> ii  gzip                          1.2.4-33.1                    The GNU
> compression utility.
>
> older version of libc (that's what the system is trying to upgrade, but
> dpkg is breaking).

So your package system has libc6 marked as installed but /lib/libc.so.6
is not there. Is that correct?

No, it has /lib/libc.so.6 but it's just a previous version.

I guess this problem is going to be the dpkg race condition that Colin was talking about.

Regards,

Chris.

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