-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 17 January 2002 7:16 am, Rob Weir wrote: > Howdy > > On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 04:05:30PM +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Recently i ran into quite a lot of trouble with my Debian Gnu/Linux > > system. I can't exactly recall what triggered the mayhem but i think it ... > > > > Basically when installing the netbase package there is an error message > > while unpacking the package. rpcinfo is to be overwritten but it's also > > part of the libc6 package ... something Broken Pipe ... and then it > > aborts. .. > Firstly, fix up your sources.list. Make sure that you only have one > disitribution in it, the one that you actually want installed. > Then, give 'apt-get -f install' a go. It's usually able to fix up my > system for me. Fiddling around with essential packages like perl, > netbase and libc6 is (in my experience) a really, really bad idea. > After all that, try dselect, and go to the select packages menu, and > hit enter. Have a look at what dselect recommends installing, and > probably just accept it.
I hope someone else can come in here. I posted a similar problem twice in the last few weeks, and nobody has been able to help In mine, I was upgrading a woody system which had last had an update 6 months ago. At the point where it was installing a new version of libc6 and as soon as this happens things start dying (segfault) particularly dpkg - to the point at which when processes like bash or ssh end they won't restart. A reboot just fails to get a system up at all. My ONLY recovery is to either do a fresh install or go back to my backup. Since I can't yet get a CD-ROM install more advanced than whats on there (since this is the network gateway machine), I have to go to backup and cannot get upgraded. I am now convinced that there is something about a libc6 update. I can individually apt-get install ANY other package with this old version of libc6 and it works fine so I have to conclude it is not an issue with the installed version of libc6 specifically. I had a look at the deb and the postinst script is pretty impossible to follow - it does seem to do a ldconfig though which is what I thought might have been missing. So I am clueless as where to look next - -- 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 iD8DBQE8Rzkg1mf3M5ZDr2kRAkIrAJ9+Rqhw2ngQ6ZhROiXm2u1/bQx4/ACgk5Hh dwE1sitB7pKpAtvvfQAnuIc= =k636 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
