Re: libc6 kernel upgrade problem

[Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com>]

bob@proulx.com (Bob Proulx) writes:

> Bill Wohler wrote:
>> Robert Jerrard writes:
>> > WARNING: POSIX threads library NPTL requires kernel version
>> > 2.6.8 or later. If you use a kernel 2.4, please upgrade it
>> > before installing glibc.
>> 
>> Does this imply that lenny will not support 2.4 at all?
>
> Correct.  Linux 2.4 support has been dropped post Etch.
>
>> Since the kernel for this particular system (a vserver) is not under
>> my control and I don't expect it to be upgraded anytime soon if ever
>> this would be bad.
>
> That could be a problem.  The calls made by libc will in some cases
> require a linux 2.6 kernel.

Any thoughts on which cases?

>> Taking a quick look, I see that glibc isn't installed on this system
>> either, so maybe I'm OK?
>
> In Debian the glibc package name is libc6 or libc6.1 or libc0.1 or
> possibly other things depending upon the architecture.  There are
> probably many different ways to deduce this but these are useful.
>
>   dpkg -S /lib/libc.*
>   libc6: /lib/libc.so.6
>
>   dpkg -l libc6'*' | grep ^ii

    [wohler@tassie:498]$ dpkg -S /lib/libc.*
    libc6: /lib/libc.so.6
    [wohler@tassie:499]$ dpkg -l libc6'*' | grep ^ii
    ii  libc6           2.3.6.ds1-13etch2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
    ii  libc6-dev       2.3.6.ds1-13etch2 GNU C Library: Development Libraries and Hea

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