Bug#630077: preinst fails with Linux 3.0

2011-06-10 Thread Colin Watson
Package: eglibc Version: 2.13-6 Severity: normal Tags: patch User: ubuntu-de...@lists.ubuntu.com Usertags: origin-ubuntu ubuntu-patch oneiric libc.preinst gets rather upset if your kernel identifies itself as 3.0 (as noted in https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/6/10/309). Here's a patch that Andy reports

Bug#629534: Upgrade fails, resulting in unusable system (no dynamic linking)

2011-06-10 Thread Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 10:26:39AM +0200, Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe wrote: > I did a quick survey over all my Debian machines and found /lib/ld.so > together with the "Mar 7 2001" timestamp, as already mentioned by Haegar > and others, on all "older" systems, i.e. systems initially installed > severa

Bug#629534: Upgrade fails, resulting in unusable system (no dynamic linking)

2011-06-10 Thread Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe
Hello Steve, On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 05:17:23PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > The attached (untested) patch is based on an IRC conversation with Aurélien > yesterday about this bug. If there are any other copies of ld-2.x.so in > /lib that dpkg doesn't know about, we should abort the upgrade unt