Re: libc6 preventing kernel upgrade from 2.2
What if you roll your own kernel?
On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 22:02 -0500, Andrew Weaver wrote:
> Here's the full output without the -f option. I don't think it's
> really making any difference.
>
> latitude:/home/andrew/Desktop# apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.27-2-686
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> The following extra packages will be installed:
> cramfsprogs dash initrd-tools libc6 modutils
> Suggested packages:
> kernel-doc-2.4.27 kernel-source-2.4.27 kernel-pcmcia-modules-2.4.27-2-686
> locales glibc-doc ksymoops
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
> cramfsprogs dash initrd-tools kernel-image-2.4.27-2-686
> The following packages will be upgraded:
> libc6 modutils
> 2 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 486 not upgraded.
> 1 not fully installed or removed.
> Need to get 0B/17.4MB of archives.
> After unpacking 27.4MB of additional disk space will be used.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
> Preconfiguring packages ...
> (Reading database ... 47781 files and directories currently installed.)
> Preparing to replace libc6 2.3.5-8 (using .../libc6_2.3.6-7_i386.deb) ...
> WARNING: This version of glibc requires that you be running
> kernel version 2.4.1 or later. Earlier kernels contained
> bugs that may render the system unusable if a modern version
> of glibc is installed.
> dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.3.6-7_i386.deb
> (--unpack):
> subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.3.6-7_i386.deb
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
>
>
> On 5/17/06, Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
> > Wow...
> >
> > Back to your question, though. What is "-f" masking? What happens
> > when you run plain old
> >
> > # apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.27-2-686
> >
> > On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 18:26 -0500, Andrew Weaver wrote:
> > > I originally installed the "stable" distro because I didn't know any
> > > better and I've since upgraded to "testing". It's definately an x86;
> > > it's a PII laptop. I didn't realize I was using such an old kernel
> > > until I tried to install the linuxant wifi driver and it told me.
> > >
> > > On 5/17/06, Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
> > > > On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 14:07 -0500, Andrew Weaver wrote:
> > > > > I'm trying to upgrade my kernel from 2.2 to 2.4 by running:
> > > >
> > > > Jeezus, man, how old is your system?
> > > >
> > > > By any chance, are you running a non-i386 system?
> > > >
> > > > [snip]
> > > > >
> > > > > How can I get around this?
> > > >
> > > > Kernel 2.2 is pretty darned ancient. Why not just reinstall from
> > > > scratch?
> >
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