Package: grep
Version: 2.5.1.ds2-3
Severity: Critical
I was very recently unable to boot properly, after having upgrading my Debian Sid machine.
During the early stages of the boot process, errors were reported, saying that the file
"/usr/lib/libpcre.so.3" couldn't be find. It couldn't be obviously find as /usr was not
mounted at this stage. As a result, boot could be performed until a point I could log in, but
only in text mode, with almost no kernel module loaded, and only the basic / partition mounted.
After looking to the dependencies, I realized that it was grep that needed the
use of this library.
This happened just after having upgrading grep from 2.5.1.ds2-2 to 2.5.1.ds2-3. I don't know what
happened during this change, but as grep may be used before /usr being mounted, I suggest either
that you go forward the last modifications, either that the libpcre3 libraries should be relocated
in /lib rather than /usr/lib (maybe this should be a libpcre3 bug report issue ?). The version of
the libpcre3 library installed is 6.4-1.0.1.
I could, at the moment, temporarily solve the problem by copying (manually) the file /usr/lib/libpcre.so.3
from the /usr to the / partition.
Thank you for your attention.
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