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

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 previous

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

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

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

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 shadow:

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 For these

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 whatever

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 HOWTO mentions this

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 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: compat