Re: Dodgy "uname -r" and upgrading libc
On Sun, Apr 25, 2004 at 02:35:57PM +0100, Piglet wrote:
> I have been having problems upgrading libc6_2.3.2.ds1-11 to
> libc6_2.3.2.ds1-12.
>
> The pre-installation script returns the error:
>
> WARNING: Your kernel version indicates a revision number
> of 255 or greater. Glibc has a number of built in
> assumptions that this revision number is less than 255.
> If you've built your own kernel, please make sure that any
> custom version numbers are appended to the upstream
> kernel number with a dash or some other delimiter.
>
> After a bit of a dig around with google, I found that it seemed to work
> out the revision number by using a "uname -r" command. So to try and see
> what might be wrong i ran one.. and it returns
>
> $ uname -r
> 2.6.47683
>
> Quite obviously my kernel isn't version 2.6.47683, thats just silly. It
> is in fact a 2.6.4 kernel that I compiled myself a month and a bit back.
> I cant say i have any idea where the 7683 nonsense comes from.
Is there any chance you used kernel EXTRAVERSION = 7683 ?
>
> This leaves me a little stuck.. I guess I need to either change the
> version that "uname -r" returns, or somehow hack the libc upgrade
> process so it gets the right value. I'm not sure how feasible either
> potential solution is, or to be honest have any idea how I'd start finding
> out how to do one or the other. These also assume that I didn't do
> anything particularly stupid when compiling the kernel (it was my first).
>
> Well.. Thankyou in advance for any help/pointers.
>
> Piglet
>
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