Hello, I nearly crashed my system today when, after a successfull upgrade to libc6 (according to the mini-HOWTO described in Debian-user) I upgraded from bash 2.01-0.1 to bash 2.01-1.
I made the mistake of using dpkg-ftp; should maybe have done this one by hand. I do not wish to report this as a bug; after all, I know the meaning of the word "unstable". But can someone explain what I did wrong? This is the story: The install failed because all scripts returned with the error: /bin/bash: error in loading shared libraries : undefined symbol: rl_get_string_value_hook after which all scripts returned: subprocess <insert one of prerm, postinst etc.> script returned error exit status 127 after which I couldn't open new shells (login worked, but bash failed) etc.. you can imagine the situation! I could rescue it by: 0) NOT logging out of the one shell that still worked (i.e. was the instance of bash from which I was installing in the first place) 1) manually (ar, tar) unpacking my old bash 2.01-0.1 file /bin/bash, 2) copying that to /bin/bash, 3) (luckily I still had this) dpkg --force-downgrade -i bash-2.01-0.1.deb I have: i486, mainly Debian 1.3 removed all libc5-dependent libX-dev packages upgraded (in order, worked like a charm.. more or less.. at least AFTERwards) libc6_2.0.4-1 ldso_1.9.5-1 libreadline2_2.1-2.1 ncurses3.4_1.9.9g-3 libreadlineg_2.1-2.1-2 bash_2.01-0.1 locales_2.0.4-1 (system worked fine) no altgcc, altdev. new gcc, libc6-dev, binutils (system worked fine) installation of bash_2.01-1 failed. My question is: In which library does rl_get_string_value_hook() reside? What does it do? Thank you for listening to all this rambling, Frits -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
