Re: An empassioned plea for deaf ears...

1999-06-15 Thread Charles B \(Ben\) Cranston
Joe Emenaker wrote: > I eventually recovered by installing a brand-new Debian on another partition > and replacing the hosed /lib, /bin, and /sbin directories with the ones from > the new install. Ug. > Why are the *system-critical* binaries dynamically linked? If you hose your > ld.so, ld-linux,

Re: An empassioned plea for deaf ears...

1999-06-15 Thread Ben Collins
On Tue, Jun 15, 1999 at 11:59:31AM -0700, Joe Emenaker wrote: > So... again... I make my annual cry to the package gods: > > Why are the *system-critical* binaries dynamically linked? If you hose your > ld.so, ld-linux, or libc, that breaks login (so there's no way to get into > the system after a

An empassioned plea for deaf ears...

1999-06-15 Thread Joe Emenaker
Well, I upgraded to the latest packages in 'unstable' and it broke mySQL and a few other goodies. Since I could no longer get the libraries that I had just *replaced* (the ones that were in 'unstable' about a month ago), I decided to try installing the libc and ldso in 'stable' bad idea. It