> Having updated libc6, I didn't know whether a reboot was in order, since > that is a fairly important library for just about everything. Well, > this was a bad idea, since my machine hung rebooting, and then nothing > would run once the kernel finished starting. Couldn't log in, rescue > disk doesn't have dpkg, and I was sorta stuck, and sort of frantic > (moreso, in fact).
It wasn't necessary to reboot... Couldn't imoprtant binaries that could stop a machine from rebooting be statically linked to avoid problems like this ? Regards -- Sarel Botha
