Investigating bugs without risking damage (Re: [bash] Everything Segfaults After lib6 -7 Upgrade)

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

Hi David,

David Baron wrote:

> (I do not want to unnecessarily try to boot up the errant Sid /lib because of 
> possible file system damage.)

Quite understandable, but it makes life hard to be tracking down a bug
from memory only.  I would not personally expect an ld.so problem to
cause corruption, just segfaults, not that I expect that to be any
comfort.

Dear debian-user list: do you have any advice for this case?  In
particular, any hints for booting up in such a way as to be certain
the root partition remains read-only (never changing it to read/write
at all)?

Thanks much.  Please cc me on replies, since I am not subscribed.

Cheers,
Jonathan