On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 04:18:28PM -0500, Brenda J. Butler wrote: > > > Two days ago I had installed minimum stable system on a laptop (IBM T21) > (from CD, Woody 3.0) and apt-get dist-upgraded to sid, then installed 400+ > packages (X Windows, KDE, etc) (used dpkg --set-selections from pkg > list of another similar laptop) and it all worked (stock kernel 2.2 > installed, then compiled kernel 2.4 (pretty much stock, one or two > modules added in but no patches) for it and that worked too). > > Then re-thought the partitioning, repartitioned, re-installed yesterday, > and had the libc6 ldconfig "illegal instruction" problem. > > Then thought, "it worked yesterday, why not revert back libc6 > a version" tried that (libc6, locales, and libc6-dev, maybe one or > two others under libc/libc6 from snapshot.debian.net (2.3.2.ds1-8) > and still got illegal instruction with ldconfig (still with kernel 2.2). > Perhaps I did it wrong. To get stuff to complete installation, > I replaced /sbin/ldconfig with /bin/true (removing /sbin/ldconfig > results in dkpg complaining that it can't find it), and put in some > symbolic links manually in /usr/lib to /usr/X11R6/lib to get X to run > (but KDE never ran properly). > > Unfortunately my compiled kernel was blown away in the re-install, > I will try to compile a new one but not sure how that will go > with a broken libc6. I suppose it should go ok, presumably > the kernel doesn't need ldconfig? > > Finally, I straced the ldconfig to see where it barfs. It > barfs "illegal instruction" after the uname call. > > HTH with the bug tracking. > > This is my first bug report (supplementary report to an existing bug) > to BTS, let me know if I should have done anything differently. > Thanks.
This is still a known problem with 2.2 kernels. If you're just installing the system, use something newer? Otherwise it will be fixed in 2.3.2.ds1-10, whenever that is ready. -- Daniel Jacobowitz MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
