Re: Problems restarting Sendmail after upgrade.

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 03:36:04PM -0600, Curtis Hogg wrote:
> I'm running Debian unstable (yes, i know that's a bad idea), and get this 
> message after apt-get update/apt-get upgrading today:
> 
> Start sendmail now? (Y/n) 
> Starting Mail Transport Agent: sendmail/usr/sbin/sendmail: /lib/libc.so.6: 
> version `GLIBC_2.3' not found (required by /usr/sbin/sendmail)
> /usr/sbin/sendmail: /lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.3' not found 
> (required by /usr/sbin/sendmail)
> invoke-rc.d: initscript sendmail, action "start" failed.
> dpkg: error processing sendmail (--configure):
>  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> 
> I have 2 questions:
>  1) GLIBC_2.3?

If you're going to run unstable, do it properly. :) What version of
libc6 do you have?

     libc6 |    2.3.1-3 |      unstable | i386, powerpc, s390

(There was a bug in libc6 2.3.1-1 whereby packages built against it
would require libc6 2.3.1 without the proper dependency.)

Cheers,

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]