Alson van der Meulen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Several packages, which seem to use networking functions are now broken: > > > > - syslogd > > - ping > > - ftp > > - emacs > > - apt-get > > > > Some of those try to open a socket in /var/run/.nscd_socket (which > > does not exist). > > > > Some just segfault (emacs). > > are you sure these packages really are upgraded? it is possible apt stopped > for some reason (some time) after libc was upgraded, and didn't install new > versions of these packages. it's also possible your mirror doesn't have all > new packages, that's the reason i've 3 mirrors in sources.list, try adding > an other mirror (or ftp to a mirror by hand and look for new apt package).
Hmm. I checked the version of those packages on ftp.debian.org - they're all on the current version. > since woody runs great for me with 2.2, i suspect these failing packages > are just the old ones build for libc6 2.1.x I would be really happy if it was that easy :-) When was your last 'apt-get dist-upgrade'? I don't really know what's wrong - and that worries me ... by Töns