On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 08:41:37PM +0000, Pigeon wrote: > On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 23:30:34 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Just guessing, but maybe it's segfaulting because some data or other > > has changed format and is barfing apt. Thus, "old data" may not > > cause the problems? > > > > Also, maybe it would just be best to do a fresh install, and promise > > yourself that you'll never get so far behind again? > > Possibly... it handles my single slink CD OK. > > I tried upgrading apt first, but of course it required me to upgrade > the @$?% C libraries... which breaks every other piece of software on > the system...
I'm confused ... how does upgrading libc6 break everything else? (It doesn't.) You may have to upgrade a few other core packages, but not many. > So I took a deep breath, hid my existing system in a /oldstuff > directory, and installed woody afresh... pretty smooth, congrats to > the Debian team. Oh well, glad this worked at least. :) -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
