Hi, I have had a Debian system working very well since 2003, when I installed it from the Stable system, which was Woody at the time. Recently I wanted to install the gap package, (Groups, Algorithms and Programming computer algebra system), and for this I had to start upgrading packages to the current Stable system, which is Etch. However I hit a circular dependency problem trying to upgrade libc6, so started upgrading packages with the Check Dependencies checkbox deselected, in the KPackage windows that were started by Konqueror, when I downloaded packages from the Debian website. At some stage e2fsprogs and e2fslibs were upgraded in this way, but I always hit an error trying to upgrade libc6, even after I exited KDE and tried to stop kdm with the kill signal in top. I then found that kdm no longer restarted KDE, so to access the Internet I had to dual boot to MS Windows. Trying to reboot in Linux now starts a file system that is Read Only, with lots of warnings and errors. It seems from some of the error messages that I now need to install the libuuid1 package, but I cannot do this because the file system is started Read Only. I can get a writable file system by booting from the old Woody rescue.bin floppy, but file locations then need to be prepended by /target, and dpkg gives an error message: relocation error, symbol _obstack_begin, version GLIBC_2.0 not defined in file libc.so.6 with link time reference.
Best regards, Chris Austin. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
