Well, I upgraded to the latest packages in 'unstable' and it broke mySQL and a few other goodies. Since I could no longer get the libraries that I had just *replaced* (the ones that were in 'unstable' about a month ago), I decided to try installing the libc and ldso in 'stable'....
bad idea. It broke bash, ldconfig, ls... everything. Everything died with a segfault. I eventually recovered by installing a brand-new Debian on another partition and replacing the hosed /lib, /bin, and /sbin directories with the ones from the new install. Ug. So... again... I make my annual cry to the package gods: Why are the *system-critical* binaries dynamically linked? If you hose your ld.so, ld-linux, or libc, that breaks login (so there's no way to get into the system after a reboot), bash (so many shell scripts won't work), ls (so you can't use 'ls -l' to see which libs the symlinks are pointing to), cp and mv (so you can't try using different libs), ed (so you can't edit any files), and mount. Is there a reason we've never switched to static linking for a critical handful of binaries? ------------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] "When I made a shadow on my window shade, They called the police and testified. But they're like the people chained up in the cave, In the alegory of people in the cave by the greek guy"
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