On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > anyway, after hours of upgrading over a 28.8K modem the process > > has finished. However something now seems broken with apt-get > > I did notice a warning about name resolution and the new C > > library when installing the new packages. Perhaps a reboot might > > fix the following problem:
I also have seen this problem happen with woody after upgrading post libc/libdb issues. I didn't see it before at all. A reboot hasn't helped. > I've heard this many times.. I have no idea what causes it.. it should not > be happening, the getaddrinfo call should never return something that > causes the message you see! > > If you find out what this is please let me know.. It would be useful, Jason, to understand what the message means: something wicked happened is pretty vague. Is the problem the DNS failed, or what? This is a case where a clearer error messgae would really help track down the problem. no time right now to browse the sources, or else I would... Seth
