At 18:32 7/10/2002 +0800, Crispin Wellington wrote:
>On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 16:40, Chris McCormick wrote:
> > I'm suspecting i might have some kind of broken glibc action going on. I
> > think that it might not be able to re-attach to tar because of an actual
> > corruption in the library binaries that handle that kind of thing. Maybe
> > it's half installed and some of the hooks to do with process attaching
> > aren't there or some weirdness like that. Hopefully it isn't something
> > sinister.
>
>Absolutely. The tar process goes open("/lib/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY) = 5.
>So perhaps the tar package is one that is built to use a newer (or
>older?) version of libc. You're trying to install that version, but
>because its not already installed the tar breaks (then why does it work
>on its own but not when inside of dpkg???)
>
>Perhaps when you successfully --unpack'ed the libc6 package it overwrote
>/lib/libc6.so, but because it didn't 'install' it didn't update
>dependent packages. Check the system details against the following from
>a working up to date debian potato system
>
>ldd /bin/tar
> libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x40016000)
> /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)
The first hex address is different, but everything else is the same. Not
entirely sure if that means anything.
>ldd /usr/bin/dpkg
> libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x40016000)
> /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)
same again.
>ls -alF /lib/libc[-.]*
>
>-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 888096 Sep 26 02:30
>/lib/libc-2.1.3.so*
>lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Oct 7 18:17 /lib/libc.so.6
>-> libc-2.1.3.so*
Same except i also have libc5 installed.
>fairway:~# dpkg -l tar libc6 dpkg apt gzip
>Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
>|
>Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
>|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err:
>uppercase=bad)
>||/ Name Version Description
>+++-=================================================================
>ii tar 1.13.17-2 GNU tar
>ii libc6 2.1.3-24 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and
>Timezone data
>ii dpkg 1.6.15 Package maintenance system for Debian
>ii apt 0.3.19 Advanced front-end for dpkg
>ii gzip 1.2.4-33.1 The GNU compression utility.
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-=============================-=============================-==========================================================================
ii tar 1.13.17-2 GNU tar
ii libc6 2.1.3-23 GNU C
Library: Shared libraries and Timezone data
ii dpkg 1.6.15 Package
maintenance system for Debian
ii apt 0.3.19 Advanced
front-end for dpkg
ii gzip 1.2.4-33.1 The GNU
compression utility.
older version of libc (that's what the system is trying to upgrade, but
dpkg is breaking).
Everything else is the same. Curious. Isn't that box of yours running
Woody? Shouldn't my libraries reflect the potato versions of these
libraries, not woody ones? I wonder if i have accidentally half-upgraded
and then tried to revert to potato again (might have happened if i put the
wrong sources in by accident one time).
Regards,
Chris.
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