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In a flurry of unwise decision, while trying to setup synchronization of my clie and looking at java sdk 1.4.1 - I attempted to upgrade my libc6 to 2.3.1 from 2.2.5 - a process that I didn't see as a huge problem as I could just roll back. LONG story short - I have 3 terms left, a web browser, and get plenty: dselect: /lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.3' not found (required by /lib/libncurses.so.5) type errors anytime I try to do something. The crux of it is, basically, php4 depended on a = or < libc6, but it somehow put itself in a broken state (even after --force-depends to install the libc6 I did have, overwriting a file that was in libdb1-compat) it still has the version `GLIBC_2.3` errors. Unfortunately, those errors go all the way to /bin/sh - so pretty much all of the pre/post install scripts fail (dpkg still works even though apt-get and dselect don't ... i think they're only failing because of ncurses, but why is /bin/sh failing!) I can't believe the machine is so crippled - and yet ssh still works (ssh'd to another machine to write this mail), and can't believe there's no way to fix it, when I have a working network connection and root. Anyone have any suggestions? again - please make sure I'm CC'd in reply, feel free to take it offlist if you don't think this is something many people will stumble into. -Martin Norland oy - shoulda just dist-upgraded to unstable, since I'm trying to pull in core packages from it into testing. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
