Re: Crash in fork.c on everything = install hosed

[Mental Patient <mental@neverlight.com>]

Malcolm Box wrote:

> OK, that looks like it might fix things.  But can anyone tell me how 
> to get the new version onto my machine given that both dpkg & apt-get 
> don't work at the moment?  Is there some way to manually unpack the 
> files from the .deb into the right places?
>
> Malcolm

Last time I broke libc, I fixed it by booting off my rescue (knoppix) cd.
Mounted all the filesystems under /mnt/debian. It looked like

/mnt/debian
/mnt/debian/boot
/mnt/debian/usr
/mnt/debian/var

etc...

I used knoppix to download the libc6 deb and copied it to the root 
filesystem (/mnt/debian) of the hosed installation.

I then cd'd into /mnt/debian and did the following:
ar x PACKAGE.deb
That left 2 files, data.tar.gz and control.tar.gz. I untared data.tar.gz 
and rebooted.

It worked, I was fine. Just to be sure, I did an apt-get --reinstall 
install libc6 to make sure everything was updated (package info, control 
scripts, etc).

HTH