Hi, I'm not confident enough to submit this as a bug report, so I thought I would post these comments to the maintainers list here.
Please forward this to relevent person/party if I've sent this to the wrong place :-( I'm currently running testing (i386). On Friday last week I did an apt-get update/upgrade on my system, which included a new libc6 and whole heap of new packages. Shortly after, I noticed things like /bin/ls, /usr/bin/tar, and other utilities failing. For example, I tried to do an "ls -l /usr/src/linux" and it would freeze, consuming 100% and consuming memory (up to around 400Mb when I killed it). I also could not extract any .tar.gz files. Tar failed in a similar way. I restored my system from backups to _before_ I did the upgrade, and everything worked fine. I then did the apt-get update/upgrade again and tested various commands. I was able to re-create the above problems. I then restored my system a second time, held back libc6 with "dpkg --set-selections" and upgraded. Everything worked fine (and is still working). The only thing different about my system is that I am running XFS 1.1 and a patched XFS kernel. I also checked my memory with memtest86 and it passed all tests. Are you aware of any issues with libc6 and testing? I'm at a loss to figure out what caused this problem. And I am really scared of upgrading now! :( cheers, Ian. -- Ian Charles, [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The number of Unix installations has grown to 10, with more expected." -- The Unix Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June, 1972 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
