On 2021-03-07 18:26, Thomas Hahn wrote: > On Fri, 5 Mar 2021 14:41:23 +0100 Aurelien Jarno <aurel...@aurel32.net> wrote: > > control: notfound -1 libc6/2.28-10 > > control: found -1 libc6/2.31-9 > > control: severity -1 grave > > > > On 2021-03-04 19:26, Thomas Hahn wrote: > > > Package: libc6 > > > Version: 2.28-10 > > > Severity: normal > > > X-Debbugs-Cc: thah...@t-online.de > > > > > > Dear Maintainer, > > > > > > installed buster, then apt upgrade was also fine, > > > but the following dist-upgrade put the system in a broken state. > > > > > > Preparing to unpack .../62-locales_2.31-9_all.deb ... > > > Unpacking locales (2.31-9) over (2.28-10) ... > > > Preparing to unpack .../63-openssh-server_1%3a8.4p1-4_amd64.deb ... > > > Unpacking openssh-server (1:8.4p1-4) over (1:7.9p1-10+deb10u2) ... > > > Preparing to unpack .../64-libc6_2.31-9_amd64.deb ... > > > whiptail: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.29' not found > > > (required by /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libslang.so.2) > > > > This seems to show that libslang2 has been wrongly unpacked before > > libc6. Do you happen to have the beginning of the log? You can find it > > in /var/log/apt/term.log.* > > > > Attached the section starting with the ill-fated dist-upgrade.
Thanks, that confirms the fact that libslang2 is unpacked before. We have to find a solution for this. > > > debconf: whiptail output the above errors, giving up! > > > Checking for services that may need to be restarted...dpkg: error > > > processing archive /tmp/apt-dpkg-install-I51xYx/64-libc6_2.31-9_amd64.deb > > > (--unpack): > > > new libc6:amd64 package pre-installation script subprocess returned > > > error exit status 255 > > > Selecting previously unselected package libcrypt1:amd64. > > > dpkg: considering deconfiguration of libc6:amd64, which would be broken > > > by installation of libcrypt1:amd64 ... > > > dpkg: yes, will deconfigure libc6:amd64 (broken by libcrypt1:amd64) > > > Preparing to unpack .../65-libcrypt1_1%3a4.4.17-1_amd64.deb ... > > > De-configuring libc6:amd64 (2.28-10) ... > > > Unpacking libcrypt1:amd64 (1:4.4.17-1) ... > > > Errors were encountered while processing: > > > /tmp/apt-dpkg-install-I51xYx/64-libc6_2.31-9_amd64.deb > > > Error: Timeout was reached > > > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > > > > To unbreak your system the best would be to unpack libc6 manually using > > the following command: > > dpkg -x /var/cache/apt/libc6_2.31-9_amd64.deb / > > > > Then you should be able to run apt again to fix you system. > > It looked like that did the trick. But then update-initramfs failed. > /lib/modules was EMPTY! Hmm, I fail to see how that's linked to manually unpacking the libc6 package. Do you have a log of the failure? > The same story for 2 machines. > So, for me it looks like the scripts in the control file do some magic > which make it bad right now. > > Thought I would get an automatic reply on all messages, but maybe I > need to subscribe. Your email address was in the To:, but your mail server refused my email. I tried from two non-dialup IPs multiple time, but all my tentative fails: thah...@t-online.de host mx02.t-online.de [194.25.134.9] SMTP error from remote mail server after initial connection: 554 IP=193.70.89.123 - A problem occurred. (Ask your postmaster for help or to contact t...@rx.t-online.de to clarify.) Aurelien -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 4096R/1DDD8C9B aurel...@aurel32.net http://www.aurel32.net