Re: [WARNING] libc6 upgrade from 2.17.97 to 2.18.1 (unstable) fails -now segfaults on apt-get etc.

2014-02-24 Thread Darac Marjal
On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 01:52:27AM +, Robin wrote: > **This of course may apply only to my PC but just in case it is not**: > > Just done dist-upgrade 01:30 22/02/2014 and upgrade fails whilst > updating libc6. Applications that were open are still functioning but > everything else segfaults.

Re: [WARNING] libc6 upgrade from 2.17.97 to 2.18.1 (unstable) fails -now segfaults on apt-get etc.

2014-02-24 Thread Robin
On 22 February 2014 01:52, Robin wrote: > **This of course may apply only to my PC but just in case it is not**: > > Just done dist-upgrade 01:30 22/02/2014 and upgrade fails whilst > updating libc6. Applications that were open are still functioning but > everything else segfaults. > Looks like a

Re: [WARNING] libc6 upgrade from 2.17.97 to 2.18.1 (unstable) fails -now segfaults on apt-get etc.

2014-02-22 Thread Robin
On 22 February 2014 07:59, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Sb, 22 feb 14, 01:52:27, Robin wrote: >> **This of course may apply only to my PC but just in case it is not**: >> >> Just done dist-upgrade 01:30 22/02/2014 and upgrade fails whilst >> updating libc6. Applications that were open are still func

Re: [WARNING] libc6 upgrade from 2.17.97 to 2.18.1 (unstable) fails -now segfaults on apt-get etc.

2014-02-21 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 22 feb 14, 01:52:27, Robin wrote: > **This of course may apply only to my PC but just in case it is not**: > > Just done dist-upgrade 01:30 22/02/2014 and upgrade fails whilst > updating libc6. Applications that were open are still functioning but > everything else segfaults. > Looks like a

[WARNING] libc6 upgrade from 2.17.97 to 2.18.1 (unstable) fails -now segfaults on apt-get etc.

2014-02-21 Thread Robin
**This of course may apply only to my PC but just in case it is not**: Just done dist-upgrade 01:30 22/02/2014 and upgrade fails whilst updating libc6. Applications that were open are still functioning but everything else segfaults. Looks like a reinstall -- rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to de

Re: Sid Libc6 Upgrade

2013-06-21 Thread Yaro Yaro
I noticed if you set this to upgrade in Synaptic it will require you to pretty much remove your entire Debian install package by package. On Jun 21, 2013 3:40 AM, "David Baron" wrote: > > These packages are "held back" right now because of a changeover from package:arch to package-arch, it seems.

Sid Libc6 Upgrade

2013-06-21 Thread David Baron
These packages are "held back" right now because of a changeover from package:arch to package-arch, it seems. Ready to play, or should be back off for a while?

Re: libc6 upgrade lenny to squeeze failed, now dpkg is broken

2010-05-14 Thread Mark Allums
On 5/13/2010 1:51 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2010-05-12 23:24 +0200, Chris Austin wrote: I've learned today that when there are circular conflicts while upgrading, e.g. libcairo2 has to be upgraded to install xulrunner-1.9.1, but upgrading libcairo2 breaks xulrunner-1.9, it helps to use the dpk

Re: libc6 upgrade lenny to squeeze failed, now dpkg is broken

2010-05-12 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-05-12 23:24 +0200, Chris Austin wrote: >> On 2010-05-11 22:11 +0200, Chris Austin wrote: > >>> I was required to upgrade libc6 from lenny to squeeze in order to meet >>> dependencies to install a package from unstable, but the libc6 upgrade >>> faile

Re: libc6 upgrade lenny to squeeze failed, now dpkg is broken

2010-05-12 Thread Mark Allums
On 5/12/2010 4:24 PM, Chris Austin wrote: I've learned today that when there are circular conflicts while upgrading, e.g. libcairo2 has to be upgraded to install xulrunner-1.9.1, but upgrading libcairo2 breaks xulrunner-1.9, it helps to use the dpkg --auto-deconfigure option before the -i action

Re: Re: libc6 upgrade lenny to squeeze failed, now dpkg is broken

2010-05-12 Thread Chris Austin
Hi, > On 2010-05-11 22:11 +0200, Chris Austin wrote: >> I was required to upgrade libc6 from lenny to squeeze in order to meet >> dependencies to install a package from unstable, but the libc6 upgrade >> failed because libc-bin was not installed. > How could this

libc6 upgrade lenny to squeeze failed, now dpkg is broken - SOLVED

2010-05-11 Thread Chris Austin
Hi, Looking on http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/libc-bin and clicking on the list of files for i386, shows that ldconfig should be in /sbin/. I had been using KPackage, and found that the downloaded .deb's were in the .kpackage subdirectory of my home directory. I created a temporary directory

libc6 upgrade lenny to squeeze failed, now dpkg is broken

2010-05-11 Thread Chris Austin
Hi, I was required to upgrade libc6 from lenny to squeeze in order to meet dependencies to install a package from unstable, but the libc6 upgrade failed because libc-bin was not installed. Now dpkg is broken. I tried a manual reinstall of the lenny libc6, as suggested in another thread on this

Re: libc6 upgrade lenny to squeeze failed, now dpkg is broken

2010-05-11 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 11 May 2010 16:05:04 Jordan Metzmeier wrote: > > How can this be fixed? And shouldn't there be a big warning that trying > > to upgrade libc6 can break dpkg, on the Debian website page for libc6? > > > > Best regards, > > Chris Austin. > > What should really be the "big warning" is mix

Re: libc6 upgrade lenny to squeeze failed, now dpkg is broken

2010-05-11 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-05-11 22:11 +0200, Chris Austin wrote: > I was required to upgrade libc6 from lenny to squeeze in order to meet > dependencies to install a package from unstable, but the libc6 upgrade > failed because libc-bin was not installed. How could this happen, given that libc6 depend

Re: libc6 upgrade lenny to squeeze failed, now dpkg is broken

2010-05-11 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
I don't see this as possible however. How is dpkg to know that the libc6 upgrade is not for security patches or point release? I suppose something could be put in place so that the security repo is treated differently. The best way to avoid this: Don't mix releases. When necessary, its

libc6 upgrade lenny to squeeze failed, now dpkg is broken

2010-05-11 Thread Chris Austin
Hi, I was required to upgrade libc6 from lenny to squeeze in order to meet dependencies to install a package from unstable, but the libc6 upgrade failed because libc-bin was not installed. Now dpkg is broken. I tried a manual reinstall of the lenny libc6, as suggested in another thread on

libc6 upgrade: invoke-rc.d: unknown initscript, /etc/init.d/-query not found.

2009-11-11 Thread Rakotomandimby Mihamina
Hi all, I am running into this issue, there is the solution. Just for archival purpose. http://sidux.com/PNphpBB2-viewtopic-t-18679-view-previous.html -- Architecte Informatique chez Blueline/Gulfsat: Administration Systeme, Recherche & Developpement +

Re: libc6 upgrade problem

2009-09-05 Thread Laurent CARON
On 05/09/2009 13:16, Sven Joachim wrote: You can set LD_LIBRARY_PATH so that the dynamic linker searches in /lib before /usr/local/lib: # LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib:/lib rm -f /usr/local/lib/tls/libc.so.6 Thanks This made it.which is a really good news since this machine is located about

Re: libc6 upgrade problem

2009-09-05 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-09-05 12:27 +0200, Laurent CARON wrote: > I did just upgrade some packages (one of them is libc6) on a server > running etch. > > It seems (from what I can see in the backups of this server) that an > old version of libc6 is lying in /usr/local/lib/tls (maybe a leftover > from some previou

libc6 upgrade problem

2009-09-05 Thread Laurent CARON
Hi, I did just upgrade some packages (one of them is libc6) on a server running etch. It seems (from what I can see in the backups of this server) that an old version of libc6 is lying in /usr/local/lib/tls (maybe a leftover from some previous install). As a matter of fact, i'm unable to r

Re: libc6 upgrade from debian 3.1 to 5.0

2009-03-15 Thread Thorny
On Sun, 15 Mar 2009 22:45:02 +0800, linux china wrote: >From your subject line "3.1 to 5.0". I'm fairly sure the upgrade from Sarge to Lenny is not supported. For one thing, the upgrade from Sarge to Etch was problematic for many people, especially those who didn't read the release notes before t

Re: libc6 upgrade from debian 3.1 to 5.0

2009-03-15 Thread Luis San Martin Rojas
2009/3/15 linux china : > when I do the aptitude dist-upgrade, I got errors while upgrading libc6, > > > Get:153 http://www.anheng.com.cn stable/main libdevmapper1.02.1 > 2:1.02.27-4 [54.0kB] > Get:154 http://www.anheng.com.cn stable/main makedev 2.3.1-88 [42.3kB] > ... ... > Get:245 http://www.anh

libc6 upgrade from debian 3.1 to 5.0

2009-03-15 Thread linux china
when I do the aptitude dist-upgrade, I got errors while upgrading libc6, Get:153 http://www.anheng.com.cn stable/main libdevmapper1.02.1 2:1.02.27-4 [54.0kB] Get:154 http://www.anheng.com.cn stable/main makedev 2.3.1-88 [42.3kB] ... ... Get:245 http://www.anheng.com.cn testing/main usbutils 0.73-

Re: Bash bashed by libc6 upgrade, more

2007-04-22 Thread David Baron
If one tries to place all the env iterms in /etc/environment, then csh fails with "unable to load" lib6 objects. Live and learn! I can run sh successfully from csh but not as the user's default shell. Bash is having problems with [ experssion ] syntax in /etc/bashrc, /etc/bash.bashrc and /etc/p

Re: Bash bashed by libc6 upgrade

2007-04-21 Thread David Baron
> David Baron wrote: > > Sid is now in its post-release fun state. After upgrading libc6, locales, > > system was entirely broken. I booted up knoppix and made a few symlinks > > and could now boot. Also saw most apps worked just fine ... if I was not > > in bash. Bash gives errors about accessing

Re: Bash bashed by libc6 upgrade

2007-04-20 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
David Baron wrote: Sid is now in its post-release fun state. After upgrading libc6, locales, system was entirely broken. I booted up knoppix and made a few symlinks and could now boot. Also saw most apps worked just fine ... if I was not in bash. Bash gives errors about accessing the new librar

Bash bashed by libc6 upgrade

2007-04-18 Thread David Baron
Sid is now in its post-release fun state. After upgrading libc6, locales, system was entirely broken. I booted up knoppix and made a few symlinks and could now boot. Also saw most apps worked just fine ... if I was not in bash. Bash gives errors about accessing the new library symlinks. Everythi

Re: libc6 upgrade: device or resource busy - SOLVED

2005-01-04 Thread Spencer Russell
YES!! So I didn't have to reinstall, I found out from a bug report that in one case the lsbdev package was the problem. So I did a dpkg -P lsbdev, and then apt-get let me upgrade libc6 just fine. So I guess this is a bug in the lsbdev package? -spencer here's a copy of the email I sent describin

Re: libc6 upgrade: device or resource busy

2005-01-02 Thread Spencer Russell
Hello, So with no progress on fixing this, is my best option to reinstall? How much would I probably need to get rid of? What's the best "debian way" to reinstall all the packages? Thanks! -spencer here's a copy of the email I sent describing the problem:

libc6 upgrade: device or resource busy

2004-12-30 Thread Spencer Russell
Hello, I'm trying to upgrade libc from 2.3.2.ds1-19 to 2.3.2.ds2-20, and apt-get install libc gives the following error message: dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.3.2.ds1-20_i386.deb (--unpack): unable to install new version of `./lib/ld-2.3.2.so': Device or resource busy dp

Re: [impossible?] libc6 upgrade/install issue

2002-01-17 Thread Alan Chandler
-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 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Recently i ran into quite a lot of trouble with my Debian Gnu/Linux > > system. I can't exactly recall w

Re: [impossible?] libc6 upgrade/install issue

2002-01-17 Thread Rob Weir
Howdy On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 04:05:30PM +, [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 had something > to do with setting up an unstable entry in sources.lis

[impossible?] libc6 upgrade/install issue

2002-01-10 Thread
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 had something to do with setting up an unstable entry in sources.list After correcting this i found a number of stable-packages to be in the obsolote

Re: libc6 upgrade question

2001-10-01 Thread Timeboy
Subject: Re: libc6 upgrade question On Monday Oct 01 11:40 Gerald Richter wrote: > ** Hello Timo! > ** Thanks for the reply, but I've allready made the described step, AND I > ** recompiled the kernel against the new libc6. -Maybe that might be where > *

Re: libc6 upgrade question

2001-10-01 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 11:40:30AM +0200, Gerald Richter wrote: > Thanks for the reply, but I've allready made the described step, AND I > recompiled the kernel against the new libc6. -Maybe that might be where > your slowlyness came from? At least I hope it for my case :) Kernels aren't linked ag

Re: libc6 upgrade question

2001-10-01 Thread Gerald Richter
ompiled the kernel against the new libc6. -Maybe that might be where your slowlyness came from? At least I hope it for my case :) -can you give me any pointers, how I could test the fact of having slowed down my system with my actions? -how do I revert my last libc6-upgrade? just excluding the woody

Re: libc6 upgrade question

2001-09-28 Thread Timeboy
Subject: Re: libc6 upgrade question On Tuesday Sep 25 13:07 Gerald Richter wrote: > ** Hello Debusers! > ** > ** I'm running a potato 2.2.19-pre17 > ** installed reiserfs-patch... OK > ** kernel compiled OK > ** installing reiserfsprogs caused a depen

Re: libc6 upgrade breaks openoffice?

2001-09-28 Thread Brian Stults
pdate/upgrade, and indeed openoffice was broken. I am running unstable on both machines with the 2.4.9 kernel. Has anyone had similar problems with this and/or other programs? Do you think my suspicion of the libc6 upgrade is correct? Can I safely downgrade libc6 to the previous version to tes

libc6 upgrade breaks openoffice?

2001-09-28 Thread Brian Stults
ndeed openoffice was broken. I am running unstable on both machines with the 2.4.9 kernel. Has anyone had similar problems with this and/or other programs? Do you think my suspicion of the libc6 upgrade is correct? Can I safely downgrade libc6 to the previous version to test the theory, an

libc6 upgrade question

2001-09-25 Thread Gerald Richter
Hello Debusers! I'm running a potato 2.2.19-pre17 installed reiserfs-patch... OK kernel compiled OK installing reiserfsprogs caused a dependency-problem requiring libc6 >=2.2.7, currently installed libc6: 2.1.3-xy. The reiserprogs did install though... so I guess I will experience problems withou

Re: libc6 upgrade problems

2001-08-15 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On 15 Aug 2001 10:30:13 -0500, Colin Watson wrote: > On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 07:51:56AM -0700, Stephen Handley wrote: > > In an attempt to get the IPMASQADM package up and running I went and > > upgraded to libc6 2.2.3-9 (or whatever the trailing numbers are). Well now a > > heap of stuff has compa

Re: libc6 upgrade problems

2001-08-15 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 07:51:56AM -0700, Stephen Handley wrote: > In an attempt to get the IPMASQADM package up and running I went and > upgraded to libc6 2.2.3-9 (or whatever the trailing numbers are). Well now a > heap of stuff has compatibility issues. I tried removing the new libc6 to > reinst

libc6 upgrade problems

2001-08-15 Thread Stephen Handley
Hi all, In an attempt to get the IPMASQADM package up and running I went and upgraded to libc6 2.2.3-9 (or whatever the trailing numbers are). Well now a heap of stuff has compatibility issues. I tried removing the new libc6 to reinstall the old one .. just to make sure that's what had caused all

libc6 upgrade problems

2001-08-01 Thread Andrew Perrin
Okay, so I've brought this on myself. I was trying to install openafs-client, which seemed to require openafs-krb5, which seemed to require libc6 from testing. So, on my potato 2.2r3 machine, I downloaded libc6_2.2.3-9_i386.deb and did dpkg --install libc6_2.2.3-9_i386.deb. It seemed to work fine,

Re: libc6 upgrade problem

2001-02-20 Thread Joey Hess
Brian Stults wrote: > I actually have two questions here. First... What is the next logical > step? Attaching strace to the process (strace -p pid) and getting a log. -- see shy jo

libc6 upgrade problem

2001-02-15 Thread Brian Stults
I recently updated through dselect, and the process hangs when it tries to upgrade libc6. I am using testing. Here is what I get: Preparing to replace libc6 2.2.1-1 (using libc6_2.2.1-3_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement libc6 . It will hang there for at least an hour (yes, I let it run for th

RE: Libc6 upgrade & Potato

2001-02-05 Thread Fernando Carvajal
original- De: jerome [mailto:jerome]En nombre de jerome Moliere Enviado el: lunes 5 de febrero de 2001 12:17 Para: debian-user@lists.debian.org Asunto: Libc6 upgrade & Potato Hi all debian gurus, I'd like to install a Java 2 platform on my linux box running Debian 2.2 Potato,

Libc6 upgrade & Potato

2001-02-05 Thread jerome Moliere
Hi all debian gurus, I'd like to install a Java 2 platform on my linux box running Debian 2.2 Potato, this is a production box!!! It seems that the jdk 1.2 or 1.3 requires an upgrade of glic: Depends: libc6 (= 2.1.3-15) but 2.2.1-1 is to be installed I'd like to know if this upgrade is a dangerou

Re: compile problems after libc6 upgrade

2000-10-04 Thread Pollywog
On Wed, 04 Oct 2000 06:08:00 + Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'. > > make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/pollywog/cvs/licq/licq/share' > > Making all in src > > make[2]: Entering directory `/home/pollywog/cvs/licq/licq/src' > > c++ -DHAVE_CONF

apache & latest woody libc6 upgrade

2000-10-04 Thread John Bagdanoff
A lingering problem of mine since things were fixed: /etc/init.d/apache start * syntax error on line 133 of /etc/apache/srm.conf: Invalid command 'AddDefaultCharsetName', perhaps mis-spelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration *

compile problems after libc6 upgrade

2000-10-04 Thread Pollywog
I was told this problem is definitely a problem with my system, and I just upgraded libc6 yesterday (to ver 2.1.94-3 ). Will I have to downgrade to the stable Potato version? Is the problem that I failed to upgrade something else when I upgraded libc6? tnx -- Andrew > > make[2]: Nothing to

stuck with libc6 upgrade

2000-03-03 Thread Werner Reisberger
I am running an original hamm system but upgraded to libc6 (v 2.1.1) and kernel 2.2.10. I ran "apt-get update" to potato succesfully. When I try apt-get install libc6 the error message (Reading database ... 6883 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace libc6

libc6 upgrade fails on unstable: devpts.sh error

2000-02-08 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
the file /etc/init.d/devpts.sh in the new libc6 on unstable has a syntax error that halts installation. I changed an unbalanced left "{" near the top of the file to "}" and the installation proceeded fine. >make_devpts() >{ >[ -d /dev/pts ] || mkdir --mode=755 /dev/pts >{ ^ This bracket s

Re: libc6 upgrade

1999-08-30 Thread Bob Nielsen
Upgrading from bo to slink isn't that straightforward due to the change to libc6. There are specific things you need to do to avoid breaking your system. You should read the following before proceeding: ftp:/ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/upgrade-older-i386/README-upgrade Bob On Mon,

libc6 upgrade

1999-08-30 Thread zdrysdal
Hi all When installing libc6 over libc5 i am getting these error messages : ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/libstdc++.so ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/libc.so ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/libg++.so libc.so is a link pointing to : libc.so -> /lib/libc.so.

Re: what to do when libc6 upgrade goes bad

1999-03-23 Thread Dan Hugo
Sarel Botha wrote: > > > Having updated libc6, I didn't know whether a reboot was in order, since > > that is a fairly important library for just about everything. Well, > > this was a bad idea, since my machine hung rebooting, and then nothing > > would run once the kernel finished starting. Co

Re: what to do when libc6 upgrade goes bad

1999-03-22 Thread Sarel Botha
> Having updated libc6, I didn't know whether a reboot was in order, since > that is a fairly important library for just about everything. Well, > this was a bad idea, since my machine hung rebooting, and then nothing > would run once the kernel finished starting. Couldn't log in, rescue > disk d

More info (was Re: what to do when libc6 upgrade goes bad)

1999-03-22 Thread Dan Hugo
Here is the error that was occurring when I attempted to reboot, as I describe below: /bin/sh: error in loading shared libraries : undefined symbol: rl_ignore_some_completions_function Dan wrote: > > Greetings-- > > I just made an attempt at upgrading my installed libc6 using > libc6_2.0.

what to do when libc6 upgrade goes bad

1999-03-22 Thread Dan
Greetings-- I just made an attempt at upgrading my installed libc6 using libc6_2.0.7.19981211-6.deb. I have a 2.0 complete install, but I was going to try GnuCash, which requires guile 1.3, which requires a few things that are newer than Deb2.0. Anyway, it didn't go so well, apparently, since so

libc6 upgrade

1998-11-07 Thread Leon Breedt
how do i upgrade my libc6? i've got the .deb of 2.07u, i suppose i have to get the libc6-dev version of it too? when i've got both, can i just install them, and have the slink programs work? regards, leon -- __ _ Leon Breedt-o) / / (_)__ __

Re: Problems with Libc6 upgrade?

1998-08-11 Thread Ed Cogburn
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, > I'm about to received Debian 2.0, and I was > wondering what effect upgrade will have on programs > that I currently use. Besides the usual GNU > programs, I also have WordPerfect, Maple, and etc. > > Will these programs

Re: Problems with Libc6 upgrade?

1998-08-11 Thread Jens Ritter
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > that I currently use. Besides the usual GNU > programs, I also have WordPerfect, Maple, and etc. > > Will these programs work with Libc6, or are there > patches that I have to download? Debian 2.0 is libc5 compatible. They run without patches.

Problems with Libc6 upgrade?

1998-08-10 Thread nimennor
Hi, I'm about to received Debian 2.0, and I was wondering what effect upgrade will have on programs that I currently use. Besides the usual GNU programs, I also have WordPerfect, Maple, and etc. Will these programs work with Libc6, or are there pat

Re: libc6 upgrade

1998-08-05 Thread David Z. Maze
Clare Johnstone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: CJ> On Wed, 5 Aug 1998, Ed Cogburn wrote: EC> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: AT> Should I be wary of ubgrading from libc6 2.0.6 to 2.0.7? Or can AT> I just blithely replace the library? EC> EC> As long as you aren't t

Re: libc6 upgrade

1998-08-05 Thread Clare Johnstone
t; blithely replace the library? > > > > Andrew Tarr > > > > > As long as you aren't talking about a libc5 to libc6 upgrade, then go > ahead and let dselect/apt do their thing. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: libc6 upgrade

1998-08-05 Thread Ed Cogburn
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Should I be wary of ubgrading from libc6 2.0.6 to 2.0.7? Or can I just > blithely replace the library? > > Andrew Tarr > As long as you aren't talking about a libc5 to libc6 upgrade, then go ahead and let dselect/apt d

Re: libc6 upgrade

1998-08-05 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Wed, Aug 05, 1998 at 10:27:36AM +1200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Should I be wary of ubgrading from libc6 2.0.6 to 2.0.7? Or can I just > blithely replace the library? There is an upgrade path to the Debian 2.0 distribution, which you have to follow or things may break. There are several a

libc6 upgrade

1998-08-04 Thread AJT60
Should I be wary of ubgrading from libc6 2.0.6 to 2.0.7? Or can I just blithely replace the library? Andrew Tarr "If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate" |___ http://multinet.co.nz/personalhomepages/locusmeus/antechamber.html |~~~ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubsc

Re: libc6 upgrade crash my machine!!!!!

1998-07-09 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Mon, 6 Jul 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > After running dselect and trying to upgrade all my old hamm packages > including libc6, nothing works now it seems the libc6 package is corrupted > or something, i've tried to mount the file system and run dpkg -i > --root=/mnt --admindir=/mnt/var/lib.

Re: libc6 upgrade crash my machine!!!!!

1998-07-09 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > After running dselect and trying to upgrade all my old hamm packages > including libc6, nothing works now it seems the libc6 package is corrupted > or something, i've tried to mount the file system and run dpkg -i > --root=/mnt --admindir=/mnt/var/lib libc6xxx.deb b

libc6 upgrade crash my machine!!!!!

1998-07-06 Thread fealvar
After running dselect and trying to upgrade all my old hamm packages including libc6, nothing works now it seems the libc6 package is corrupted or something, i've tried to mount the file system and run dpkg -i --root=/mnt --admindir=/mnt/var/lib libc6xxx.deb but it complains about preinstall a

Re: Question about libc5 - libc6 upgrade.

1998-05-07 Thread Liran Zvibel
On Thu, 7 May 1998, Damon Muller wrote: > Hi Folks, > > I was considering upgrading to hamm, but my wonderfull ISP just decided > that it was going to charge $0.25 for every Meg over 300M downloaded > each month. Given that I almost use that anyway, it'll take me about a > year to download hamm

Question about libc5 - libc6 upgrade.

1998-05-07 Thread Damon Muller
Hi Folks, I was considering upgrading to hamm, but my wonderfull ISP just decided that it was going to charge $0.25 for every Meg over 300M downloaded each month. Given that I almost use that anyway, it'll take me about a year to download hamm without it costing me a fortune... Anyway, I would li

Re: libc6 upgrade script?

1998-02-05 Thread Robert D. Hilliard
On Fri, 30 Jan 1998, I sent a message to the testing list and to Craig noting that I had found two bugs that cause v0.17 of autoup to fail. I included diffs from v0.17 to my v0.18. As of yesterday, both Craig's ftp site and yours still had v0.17. If you wish, I can send these diffs to

Re: libc6 upgrade script?

1998-02-05 Thread Scott Ellis
On Thu, 5 Feb 1998, dpk wrote: > I'm feeling kind of sassy today, and thought I might try upgrading to > hamm. I have seen a script posted that help do this. I still have it > somewhere, however I was wondering where I could find the most recent > version of this and instructions/tips for using

libc6 upgrade script?

1998-02-05 Thread dpk
I'm feeling kind of sassy today, and thought I might try upgrading to hamm. I have seen a script posted that help do this. I still have it somewhere, however I was wondering where I could find the most recent version of this and instructions/tips for using it? Dennis -- dpk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,

Re: Gzip + Dselect after libc6 upgrade

1998-01-22 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian Skreeg) writes: > Error update: This problem only occurs when I launch Dselect from KDE > like this; > > sudo -u root Dselect > > If I log into a console and use dselect as root it installs fine. Defo > a permissions thing. > I've seen similar permissions problems with

Re: Gzip + Dselect after libc6 upgrade

1998-01-22 Thread Brian Skreeg
EMAIL PROTECTED]> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian Skreeg) > Subject: Gzip + Dselect after libc6 upgrade > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org (Debian List) > Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 09:30:09 + (GMT) > X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] > Resent-Message-ID: <"f

Kernel Compile after libc6 upgrade

1998-01-21 Thread Mike Hill
This week I tried compiling a kernel (2.0.32) for the first time since upgrading to libc6 about a month ago. I can't get past `make dep.' It fails with the following message: debian# make dep make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.32/arch/i386/boot' make[1]: Nothing to be done f

Gzip + Dselect after libc6 upgrade

1998-01-21 Thread Brian Skreeg
EMAIL PROTECTED]> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian Skreeg) > Subject: Gzip + Dselect after libc6 upgrade > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org (Debian List) > Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 09:30:09 + (GMT) > X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] > Resent-Message-ID: <"f

Gzip + Dselect after libc6 upgrade

1998-01-19 Thread Brian Skreeg
Hi folks, `fraid I`m still having bother with gzip and dselect. I`ve upgraded to libc6 quite successfully. Everything works hunkydory but dselect always gives this error when installing. dpkg -i works fine on it`s own. Error; gzip: stdout: Broken pipe dpkg-deb: subprocess gzip -dc returned error

Re: Panic - Re: libc5-libc6 Upgrade - Problem logging in with username in NIS

1998-01-14 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
Nils Rennebarth wrote: > I tried to be clear but... anyway, my /etc/nsswitch.conf looks like this: > > #---cut here to damage your monitor-- > # /etc/nsswitch.conf > # > # Example configuration of GNU Name Service Switch functionality. > # > > passwd: c

Re: Panic - Re: libc5-libc6 Upgrade - Problem logging in with username in NIS

1998-01-14 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Nils Rennebarth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >As for documentation try the command > info libc >then look at the section >* Name Service Switch Well you could also just read the /usr/doc/nis/nis.debian.howto.gz file which explains everything in detail. Mike. --

Re: Panic - Re: libc5-libc6 Upgrade - Problem logging in with username in NIS

1998-01-14 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Wed, Jan 14, 1998 at 09:18:55AM -0800, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote: > Nils Rennebarth wrote: > > > passwd: db files > > > group: db files > > > shadow: db files > > For these three replace "db files" with "compat" and you should be done. > How should it read? The HOW

Re: Panic - Re: libc5-libc6 Upgrade - Problem logging in with username in NIS

1998-01-14 Thread Joost Kooij
On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote: > Also, I am in Panic Mode now. > * If I am unable to log in as root, how do I fix what I did to > nsswitch.conf? I was sensible enough to backup the old file before > making the changes. I am unable to locate my emergency disk (or > whatev

Panic - Re: libc5-libc6 Upgrade - Problem logging in with username in NIS

1998-01-14 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
Nils Rennebarth wrote: > On Tue, Jan 13, 1998 at 09:26:27PM -0800, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote: > > After the upgrade, I am unable to log into my machine with a username in > > YP. > > $ cat /etc/nsswitch.conf > > passwd: db files > > group: db files > > shadow: db files

Re: libc5-libc6 Upgrade - Problem logging in with username in NIS

1998-01-14 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Tue, Jan 13, 1998 at 09:26:27PM -0800, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote: > After the upgrade, I am unable to log into my machine with a username in > YP. > > $ cat /etc/passwd > > ...some stuff... > > +::0:0::: OK > $ cat /etc/nsswitch.conf > passwd: db files > group: db files

libc5-libc6 Upgrade - Problem logging in with username in NIS

1998-01-14 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
Hi, Thanks to the help of the fine folks in this mailing list, I was able to upgrade to hamm reasonably easily. I am still poking around my system to find out problems with the upgrade. After the upgrade, I am unable to log into my machine with a username in YP. $ cat /etc/passwd ...some stuff

Re: libc5 - libc6 Upgrade Roadmap?

1998-01-14 Thread Craig Sanders
On Tue, 13 Jan 1998, Scott Ellis wrote: > On Tue, 13 Jan 1998, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote: > > > * I am downloading the entire hamm binary-i386, contrib and non-free > > tree to a directory (actually, my home directory) on an NFS server. Is > > there a possibility that NFS might stop working

Re: libc5 - libc6 Upgrade Roadmap?

1998-01-13 Thread Scott Ellis
On Tue, 13 Jan 1998, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote: > I read the mini HOWTO and reports in this mailing list about unstable > being "stable enough". My machine is kind of a production server. The > world would not end if it goes down for a day or so. But still it is > important to have it up a

Re: libc5 - libc6 Upgrade Roadmap?

1998-01-13 Thread Will Lowe
On Tue, 13 Jan 1998, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote: > * I am downloading the entire hamm binary-i386, contrib and non-free > tree to a directory (actually, my home directory) on an NFS server. Is > there a possibility that NFS might stop working during the upgrade > process? Why don't you just u

libc5 - libc6 Upgrade Roadmap?

1998-01-13 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
I read the mini HOWTO and reports in this mailing list about unstable being "stable enough". My machine is kind of a production server. The world would not end if it goes down for a day or so. But still it is important to have it up and running ASAP. I am planning on upgrading to hamm later tod

ftp & ncftp segfaults after libc6 upgrade

1998-01-13 Thread Steve Hsieh
After upgrading to libc6 via the libc5-libc6 HOWTO, and running dselect to install all the hamm packages, ftp or ncftp no longer works. Here's what I see: kanga:[21]~% ftp Segmentation fault (core dumped) kanga:[22]~% ldd /usr/bin/ftp libreadline.so.2 => /lib/libreadline.so.2 (0x4000f000

Re: Q: Pointer for libc6 upgrade

1997-11-18 Thread Mark W. Eichin
>> Though I have not tried this yet (the machine with the >> development environment has not yet been upgraded) but I >> presume that by "... first purge all the '-dev' packages >> ..." he is referring to using dselect or dpkg ... Yes, exactly. Dselect handles this directly (though I'm the wrench

Re: Q: Pointer for libc6 upgrade

1997-11-17 Thread Bill Leach
Mark, I agree with you. Indeed, in retrospect, I can see that it was a rather bad idea for me to even mention using "--force" in a message with that subject! Scott's mini-HOWTO is quite good and there is only ONE statement that is not completely clear to me. "If you wish to do libc6 developmen

Re: Q: Pointer for libc6 upgrade

1997-11-17 Thread Mark W. Eichin
> I have used --force-depends now quite a few times without being Not to pick on you in particular, but I can't emphasize this enough: if you use --force-depends while doing an upgrade from libc5 to libc6, you *will* hurt yourself. Practically guaranteed. Really, honest! :-) There are *other*

Re: Q: Pointer for libc6 upgrade

1997-11-17 Thread Bill Leach
Remco wrote: ... > One really important thing: do not force dpkg to install or remove > anything. The dependancies and conflicts are there for a reason. There > have already been many that screwed up by forcing dpkg to do not-so-smart > things. I am one of them, but I upgraded before the HOWTO was

Re: Q: Pointer for libc6 upgrade

1997-11-17 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Sat, 15 Nov 1997, Matthew Majka wrote: > Can someone give me a pionter to some info on upgrading a > system to libc6? I'd like to start using XFree86-3.3.1 for > some of it's bug fixes and the new debian packages are libc6 > dependent. Read the Libc5 to Libc6 mini-HOWTO that is posted to this

Q: Pointer for libc6 upgrade

1997-11-15 Thread Matthew Majka
Can someone give me a pionter to some info on upgrading a system to libc6? I'd like to start using XFree86-3.3.1 for some of it's bug fixes and the new debian packages are libc6 dependent. Matt -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Troub

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