Can you please try with the kernel-image-2.6.0-test2-1-386 package? That's what I'm using here and it's working fine.
Tks, Jeff Bailey On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 02:33:01AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Package: libc6 > Version: 2.3.2-2 > Severity: critical > Justification: Breaks whole system > > Running Linux kernel 2.5.68: > Installing libc6-2.3.2-2 produces the following output: > Suu:~# dpkg -i -D3 /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6* > /var/cache/apt/archives/locales_2.3.2-2_all.deb > (Reading database ... 63496 files and directories currently installed.) > Preparing to replace libc6 2.3.1-16 (using .../libc6_2.3.2-2_i386.deb) ... > D000001: process_archive oldverionstatus=installed > D000002: maintainer_script_alternative nonexistent prerm > '/var/lib/dpkg/info/libc6.prerm' > D000002: fork/exec /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/preinst ( ) > Unpacking replacment libc6 ... > D000002: fork/exec /var/lib/dpkg/info/libc6.postrm ( ) > dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.3.2-2_i386.deb (--install) > dpkg: warning - old post-removal script killed by signal (Segmentation fault) > > D000002: fork/exec /var/lib/dpkg/info/libc6.preinst ( ) > dpkg: error while cleaning up: > subprocess pre-installation script killed by signal (Segmentation fault) > Preparing to replace libc6-dev 2.3.1-16 (using .../libc6_2.3.2-2_i386.deb) ... > D000001: process_archive oldverionstatus=installed > D000002: maintainer_script_alternative nonexistent prerm > '/var/lib/dpkg/info/libc6-dev.prerm' > D000002: fork/exec /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/preinst ( ) > Unpacking replacment libc6-dev ... > D000002: maintainer_script_alternative nonexistent postrm > '/var/lib/dpkg/info/libc6-dev.postrm' > D000001: process_archive updating info directory > D000001: process_archive info installed /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/preinst as > /var/lib/dpkg/info//libc6-dev.preinst > D000002: process_archive tmp.ci script/file '.' contains dot > D000002: process_archive tmp.ci script/file '..' contains dot > D000002: process_archive tmp.ci script/file '/var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/control' is control > Preparing to replace locales 2.3.1-16 (using .../locales_2.3.2-2_all.deb) > D000001: process_archive oldverionstatus=installed > D000002: maintainer_script_alternative nonexistent prerm > '/var/lib/dpkg/info/locales.prerm' > D000002: maintainer_script_new nonexistent preinst '/var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/preinst' > Unpacking replacement locales ... > D000002: fork/exec /var/lib/dpkg/info/locales.postrm ( ) > D000001: process_archive updating info directory > D000001: process_archive info installed /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/postinst as > /var/lib/dpkg/info//locales.postinst > D000001: process_archive info installed /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/conffiles as > /var/lib/dpkg/info//locales.conffiles > D000001: process_archive info installed /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/postrm as > /var/lib/dpkg/info//locales.postrm > D000001: process_archive info installed /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/templates as > /var/lib/dpkg/info//locales.templates > D000001: process_archive info installed /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/config as > /var/lib/dpkg/info//locales.config > D000002: process_archive tmp.ci script/file '.' contains dot > D000002: process_archive tmp.ci script/file '..' contains dot > D000002: process_archive tmp.ci script/file '/var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/control' is control > dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libc6-dev: > libc6-dev depends on libc6 (=2.3.2-2); however: > Package libc6 is not installed. > dpkg: error processing libc6-dev (--install) > dependency problems - leaving unconfigured > dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of locales: > locales depends on glibc-2.3.2-2; however: > Package glibc6-2.3.2-2 is not installed. > dpkg: error processing locales (--install) > dependency problems - leaving unconfigured > Errors were encountered while processing: > /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.3.2-2_i386.deb > libc6-dev > locales > -- End of horrendous transcribing... > > An ls -l /lib/*-2.3* shows the libc6 2.3.1 and 2.3.2 files happily > sitting next to each other, the 2.3.1 dated March 22nd, the 2.3.2 > files dated August 6th. The other libraries inclued in the libc6 > package: > ls -l /lib/lib*thread* /lib/libSegFault.so > show that libpthread-0.10.so, libSegFault.so and libthread_db-1.0.so > are all the March 22nd version. The 2.3.2 versions of these files, > and any other files from the libc6-2.3.2-2 apart from /lib/*-2.3.2 > aren't unpackged anywhere I can see. Or have been unpacked, and > cleaned up, maybe. > > The symlinks for the so-versioned files in the libc6 package are all > pointing to the 2.3.1 versions. > > At this point (in previous experimentation) ldconfig will produce > a system that segfaults on anything, apparently due to the mismatch > of libpthread and libc. > > The other solution I have attempted was to get the new libpthread, > libthread_db and libSegFault and put them in place (booting from > the woody installation CD). If the old libpthread et al. are left > in place (as *.so.org for example) ldconfig will choose them in > preference to the 2.3.2 versions, and every command (even ldd and ln, > which don't link to libpthread, just libc) segfault. ldconfig is OK. > This includes the ldd from the 2.3.2 libc6 package. > > Leaving just the 2.3.2 versions and deleting the 2.3.1 versions of > the un-so-versioned files also produces a system which is unbootable. > > Both cases of unbootability appear to be init segfaulting, but no > error appears on screen. The last line of booting is: > Frreing unused kernel memory: 164k freed > > I hope there's enough here to help with whatever is causing this, > and/or gain some advice as to what I can try next. It would be nice > if dpkg in debugging mode told me what parameters it was passing to > the maintainer scripts so I could see what's segfaulting during the > install. > > Aaargh. I just realised on this test run that I backed up the 2.3.1 > un-so-versioned /lib stuff to the ramdisk, not the target. So I may > not be able to try any solutions that require a working system for a > little while. :-( Not until after I find a working floppy disk... > > Hmm, that's interesting. If I use the old 2.3.1 so-named libraries, > but the new un-so-named libraries, I can boot, but get that relocation > error from 204930 from various processes during boot. (Those that link > to libpthread, such as ls, but ldd and mv and ln work OK.) > > So I can successfully restore by running > dpkg -i ~tbble/libc6* ~tbble/locales_2.3.1-16_all.deb. > > Oh, no I can't. dpkg-deb needs tar to extract, and tar uses libpthread. > Blah. :-( > dpkg-deb -x ~tbble/libc6_2.3.1-16_i386.deb . > Failed. > dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile ~tbble/libc6_2.3.1-16_i386.deb |cpio -i > Worked! (For anyone else needed to recover easily from that level of > stupidity) > cp lib/libthread*-*.so lib/libSegFault.so /lib > And now I can ls again! :-) > I hope _that_ little sojourn helps people too. > > After all that I guess the problem appears to be that the libc-2.3.2.so > in libc6-2.3.2-2 segfaults. I dunno how to debug it further than that. > Suggestions welcome, but time is scarce before the weekend. :-( > > -- > Paul "TBBle" Hampson. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Breathe into my hands, I'll cup them like a glass to drink from... - Tattle Tale -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
