-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Last weekend I attempted to update my [small home] server (with a dselect update) to the latest version of "testing". I was previously running testing but I had not updated it for several months
It failed - disasterously - in that everything started crashing and I ended up restoring from backup I tried it again this weekend (I assumed the problem was a temporary blip - since query on this list brought no response), but it has failed in exactly the same way. It seems to be updating libc6 at the time - and as soon as it has updated, dpkg gets no further (it starts seg faulting) and much of the rest of the system doesn't work either. Applications segfault - ssh eventually kills its connection - attempt to login on the main console fails and even starting linux with the init=/bin/sh command line just hangs.. In the end I had to recover by restoring the whole of /lib (and its subdirectories) from a backup. I tried just restoring /lib/libc* and /lib/i686/libc* but that didn't work Trouble is now I am stuck. How do I get my "testing" configuration up to date? - -- Alan - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE77ZtB1mf3M5ZDr2kRAo8OAKCXIfRqUnVLxbyOaZOl1p+wRFu1kQCfTVZA Le1XaxLcmQ5MmcIMQd8O8aM= =TcDD -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
