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 should be a right bracket "}". Alan Davis -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] "An inviscid theory of flow renders the screw useless, but the need for one non-existent." ---Lord Raleigh (John William Strutt), or else his son, who was also a scientist.