Please disregard post of maybe 1/2 hour ago. This was written last week, failed to send because of broken system.
Update: Up and Running Once Again (phew!) Googled on chroot input output error, found a arch-linux thread which lead me to the solution: The libs were being loaded from i868/cmov set. I copied those to i386-linux-gnu, reset the lib pointer and had a working shell. Reboot, nothing mounted. Copied id libs, copied from my "saved" folders Reboot, got kde up. Iptables complained about a couple more so copied them as well. dpkg -i'd all the libc6, related 2.17 versions that had been erroneously replaced with 2.18-experimental versions. A couple of dependencies as well. All looks OK in synaptic, so .... Do change the bug title! As I said, this update to experimental packages occurred twice already (but I cannot say how to reproduce, maybe there is a bug in the update from certain repos.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org