Bug#640872: Acknowledgement (libc6: upgrade fails to mv /lib64.eglibc-new to /lib64; leaves system unusable)

2011-09-08 Thread Austin Clements
Here's a work-around for anyone who can't boot because of this bug. Boot into GRUB and edit your kernel command line to add break=init. This should drop you to your initramfs. Your root partition should be mounted read-only on /root, which should allow you to verify that lib64 is gone, but that

Bug#640872: Info received (Bug#640872: Acknowledgement (libc6: upgrade fails to mv /lib64.eglibc-new to /lib64; leaves system unusable))

2011-09-08 Thread Austin Clements
I probably don't understand all of the nuances of that code, but one potential fix is simply to pass a benign argument to mv. Something like if ! $ldfile /bin/mv --version /dev/null 2/dev/null; then ... Alternatively, it may be more robust for the script to simply create a file to mv

Bug#640872: Info received (Bug#640872: Acknowledgement (libc6: upgrade fails to mv /lib64.eglibc-new to /lib64; leaves system unusable))

2011-09-08 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-09-08 08:35 +0200, Austin Clements wrote: I probably don't understand all of the nuances of that code, but one potential fix is simply to pass a benign argument to mv. Something like if ! $ldfile /bin/mv --version /dev/null 2/dev/null; then ... Alternatively, it may be