On Thu, 2013-10-31 at 21:26 -0400, Wendy J. Elmer wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2013-10-08 at 21:41 -0400, Wendy J. Elmer wrote: > > > I tried to install and older version of libc6 from the snapshot > > repository but that didn't work. I kept getting the segfault. Here > > is what I did that finally worked: > > > > as root > > # /var/lib/dpkg/info/libc6-i686:i386.postinst configure > > # dpkg --configure libc6 > > # apt-get -f install > > # dpkg --configure -a > > > > I don't know if all of those steps were required but it took care of > > the problem. > > > > On my other machine that is broken, it is segfaulting in the > > pre-install. That machine is a 64bit amd computer. I haven't > > figured out a way to fix it yet. > > > > Brent > > > Any help on fixing my other machine would be appreciated. apt-get -f > install gives a segfault and I can't tell what preinst or postinst is > having a problem. Is there a way to get more details of apt-get -f > install to show line by line what it is doing? I see several > libc6* .preinst and .postinst scripts in /var/lib/dpkg/info. > When I run apt-get -f install, it tells me there are two packages to > be upgraded libc6 and libc6-i686:i386. > It also says 8 not fully installed or removed. When I select y I see: > > Reading changelogs... Done > Segmentation fault > (Reading database ... 229401 files and directories currently > installed.) > Preparing to replace libc6:amd64 2.17-92+b1 > (using .../libc6_2.17-93_amd64.deb (--unpack): > subprocess new pre-installation script was killed by signal > (Segmentation fault) > Errors were encountered while processing: > /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.17-93_amd64.deb > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dmpk returned an error code (1) > > I put a set -x in /var/lib/dpkg/info/libc6:amd64.preinst but I don't > know how to run the script manually to see what it is doing because it > takes 2 arguments which I don't know what to use. The 2 arguments are > type and preversion > > Brent > I have fixed the computer. Since I could tell the problem was in libc3:amd64.preinst and I could tell that nothing needed to be done in the preinst given the version I was upgrading from, I unpacked the package and put an exit 0 near the top of the .preinst script then put the package back together and installed. I used dpkg-deb --extract to extract the package dpkg-deb -e to extract the DEBIAN directory edited the .preinst script dpkg -b to put the package back together dpkg -i to install the package I did a apt-get -f install to make sure everything was fully installed Once I did that the computer worked again. Brent
