Re: ldconfig responds with Illegal Instruction, cannot

[Chris Purves <chris.purves@gmail.com>]

On 10/09/05, Chris Purves <chris.purves@gmail.com> wrote:
> A recent upgrade with aptitude on testing exited halfway through with the
> following error:
>  
>  Preconfiguring packages ...
>  Setting up libpam0g (0.76-23) ...
>  /var/lib/dpkg/info/libpam0g.postinst: line 3: 31771
> Illegal instruction     ldconfig
>  dpkg: error processing libpam0g (--configure):
>   subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 132
>  Errors were encountered while processing:
>   libpam0g
>  E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
>  
>  In addition I cannot use dpkg-reconfigure for many packages due to ldconfig
> not working.
>  
>  I have found others with the same problem, but reported over a year ago.  I
> downloaded libc6 and installed with dpkg -i but that didn't fix the problem.
>  It's been like this for about three or four days and still no bug report in
> libc6, so I assume that the problem is not common.

I was not able to solve the problem.  In the end I suspect the problem
may be with the kernel I am using 2.2.20 which is no longer supported
or tested for packages in testing.  To get my system running again, I
installed libc6 from stable using dpkg, then downgraded the entire
system to stable.

Everything is working now, and luckily I don't need any packages from testing.

-- 
Take care, eh.
Chris