severity 324795 normal tags 324795 moreinfo thanks At Wed, 24 Aug 2005 09:11:30 -0400, Rob Warren wrote: > I was upgrading from woody to sarge when apt-get choked on upgrading > libc6 from 2.2.5-11.8 to 2.3.2.ds1-22 with a message along the lines of > 'can't seek in file xxxxxx'. dmesg would report 'Bad number of > arguments for llseek()' (paraphrasing) every so often. It was > impossible to reserve the package install.
Weird. Grep told me that dmesg (kernel 2.2.19) and glibc should not warn such kind of messages. > >> Linux jill 2.2.19 #1 Tue Dec 25 13:58:22 GMT 2001 armv4l unknown > > > > This kernel is not the standard debian supported kernel - it seems a > > bit old. Can you try newer kernel with glibc 2.3.2.ds1-22? > > 2.2.19 is the last kernel that I've run without problems; the machine > had an uptime of 221 days when I tried to upgrade. Uptime is not important information for this kind of userland issue. > Getting someone to access the machine is non-trivial and is going to > require shipping the computer. > I won't be able to try anything for a few weeks until I get access to > the machine. If so, we can't track down any more too - please send us the detailed information if you have an access for that machine. Regards, -- gotom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
