On Mon, Jun 07, 1999 at 09:28:38AM -0700, Brent Fulgham wrote: > I was installing a few packages from the archive that I hadn't gotten > around to doing (like the new hurd*.deb, etc.) when I came across > the libnfslock deb file. Unfortunately, this is not a hurd package > (or if it is, it's really, really bad), because when dpkg -i finished > with it, everything locked up complaining that the linker could not > resolve some symbols in nfslock.so
This is really a good horror story... I will try not to dreamof it. The full error message would be nice, but don't worry if you forgot it. I can always try myself. [...] > And it still stop in the exec server.... > > Any idea what else I can try? Or should I just wipe the partition > and reinstall... Try to delete /etc/ld.so.preload. If that is not the culprit, I don't know. > Luckily I managed to upload vim-5.3b series before this happened. > This is supposed to provide X support, but I find it doesn't really > because it tries to link to the athena widgets, which we don't have > yet! :) :) > Help! *laugh* I build this package, it's part of liblockfile or so. better not install it, it shouldn't be necessary anyway. I was not aware that it may be harmful. Hope it helps, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org finger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org master.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] for public PGP Key http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ PGP Key ID 36E7CD09
