Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I run apt-get update&&apt-get upgrade frequently. Seems a recently > installed package is broken (I'm suspecting fileutils). > > When I do an ls I get: > ls: reading directory .: Function not implemented > > When I do an apt-get upgrade I get: > 27 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 11 not > upgraded. 3 packages not fully installed or removed. > Need to get 0B/26.2MB of archives. After unpacking 5009kB will be used.
...that is, in fact, the canonical symptom of the libc6 lossage you mention. If you're running APT updates "frequently" and seeing this much changed, you're running unstable, since testing hasn't seen much in the way of changes for quite a while now. You can canonically check by catting /etc/apt/sources.list. > The fine folks on #debian at irc.openprojects.net suggested a problem > between libc6 2.3.1-6 and a 2.2 kernel, though I've not yet found how > to fix it with apt-get broken. You might be able to do it by hand with ar, tar, and a copy of a different version of the libc6 package. (A .deb file is a specially formatted ar archive containing a flag file, control.tar.gz, and data.tar.gz, so you can 'ar x libc6_2.3.1-7_i386.deb', then 'tar xzf data.tar.gz -C /'.) If you're running unstable, you should be aware that this level of breakage happens sometimes. You should definitely subscribe to debian-devel-announce (several messages a week); you might also consider subscribing to debian-devel (a little less traffic than debian-user), where these sorts of issues with unstable come up more often. -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/ "Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal." -- Abra Mitchell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
