On Sat, May 29, 2004 at 07:10:10PM -0600, Grant Grundler wrote: > No ldconfig. Matthew and I discussed this offline. > Tried to unpack the .deb by hand and install the files > but found the root cause of the problem: > > /target # tar xzf data.tar.gz > tar: Invalid tar magic > /target # md5sum var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.3.2.ds1-12_hppa.deb > a029b01f3345af2af401620118d39bf1 > var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.3.2.ds1-12_hppa.deb > > which doesn't match the md5sum from either a freshly downloaded glibc .deb > from mirrors.kernel.org or from HP internal debian mirror that I run. > > Seems the package integrity checking has a bug.
That's a *critical* bug. Please say you kept that deb around? We can use it in a chroot to find the bug in the integrity checking. I'd really like to know how that trashed your system. c.
