Re: Dist-upgrade on remote server fails;
On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 03:42:25PM -0600, John Foster wrote:
> I have a question regarding upgrading a remotely hosted VPN server. was
> running Debian 6; I did a few upgrades to clear the way for a
> dist-upgrade. I normally do this by getting the libc6 stuff and the
> kernel image done first then the rest of my apps. I've had very few
> issues with this in the past. However this is my first time to do it via
> all command line interface on a remotely hosted VPN server. On this
> server there is no kernel image or at least nothing in the /boot
> directory & nothing shows to be installed as a kernel image in dselect.
> the issue at hand is this message when I try to install the new libc6
> parts:
If the package manager doesn't know about your kernel and libc, then I
think there's a number of possibilities: They've been installed manually
(for example with ./configure ; make ; make install), The package
manager has forgotten about them (unlikely, but disk-corruption could do
that) or I *think* there are certain kinds of virtualised environments
that don't expose the kernel to you. You don't say your remote server is
virtual, though, so we'll exclude the latter.
If you haven't installed the files manually, then you should probably
check files like /var/lib/dpkg/available and /var/lib/dpkg/status for
truncation/corruption.
In terms of recovery, "dpkg -i --force-overwrite {something}.deb" MIGHT
work, but note that issue of unsafeness (below).
>
> A copy of the C library was found in an unexpected directory:
> '/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc-2.13.so'
> It is not safe to upgrade the C library in this situation;
> please remove that copy of the C library or get it out of
> '/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu' and try again.
>
> dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.13-38
> +deb7u1_amd64.deb (--unpack):
> subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.13-38+deb7u1_amd64.deb
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
>
> If anyone has experience with this type of issue or running remotely
> hosted servers please advise of any ideas for managing this issue. i
> have researched a tried a couple of "processes that work" for some folks
> already, but when I do move those c lib items to another directory the
> whole system fails and I've only been able to rescue my self by having
> several term windows open where I have command line access. I was able
> to reinstall (as in put them back) using filezilla and a remote term
> that was kept open for this purpose.
> Thanks
> John
>
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