Illegal instruction after upgrade
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I upgraded my system last evening as follows:
root@son-of-spike% apt-get -u upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following packages will be upgraded
~ cpp-3.2 gcc-3.2-base libc6 libc6-dev libmailtools-perl locales mailliststat
7 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 11.2MB of archives. After unpacking 987kB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Get:1 http://security.debian.org stable/updates/main libmailtools-perl
1.44-1woody2 [78.0kB]
Get:2 http://ftp.keystealth.org testing/main libc6-dev 2.3.2-7 [3004kB]
Get:3 http://ftp.keystealth.org testing/main locales 2.3.2-7 [3799kB]
Get:4 http://ftp.keystealth.org testing/main libc6 2.3.2-7 [4019kB]
Get:5 http://ftp.keystealth.org testing/main gcc-3.2-base 1:3.2.3-8 [129kB]
Get:6 http://ftp.keystealth.org testing/main cpp-3.2 1:3.2.3-8 [127kB]
Get:7 http://ftp.keystealth.org testing/main mailliststat 1.3-1 [51.1kB]
Fetched 11.2MB in 8m59s (20.8kB/s)
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 39650 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace libc6-dev 2.3.1-16 (using
.../libc6-dev_2.3.2-7_sparc.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement libc6-dev ...
Preparing to replace locales 2.3.1-16 (using .../locales_2.3.2-7_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement locales ...
Preparing to replace libc6 2.3.1-16 (using .../libc6_2.3.2-7_sparc.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement libc6 ...
Setting up libc6 (2.3.2-7) ...
Since that upgrade many processes won't start and even commands like ps are
giving back "illegal instruction". I'm guessing that there is some
instruction in libc6 that is not valid on the SPARC (i.e. a bug), but am
not sure now how to back out of this situation.
Help appreciated!!!
Thanks...
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