On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 12:57:00PM -0700, Kurt Fitzner wrote: > Perhaps I should mention a problem I had upgrading Etch to Lenny. I > made a Debian bug report about it because it seemed like it might be a > general Debian issue, but now I'm not so sure. > > The gist of the issue is that df stops working after coreutils is > upgraded until the system is rebooted with a new kernel. This causes > any package upgrade that depends on df (such as mysql) to fail - which > causes the whole upgrade procedure to fail. > > I managed to get it going again by replacing df with a shell script that > just echo'ed a pretend output for df.
What was the starting kernel version? The latest stable etch kernel? I suspect the fault for this lies in glibc trickery, though I'm not sure off-hand. I don't recall any changes in the kernel to these syscalls in the gap of versions between etch and lenny. regards, Kyle -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
