Re: Crash in fork.c on everything = install hosed

2003-11-04 Thread Malcolm Box
Gary Hennigan wrote: "Malcolm Box" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: OK, that looks like it might fix things. But can anyone tell me how to get the new version onto my machine given that both dpkg & apt-get don't work at the moment? Is there some way to manually unpack the files from the .deb into

Re: Crash in fork.c on everything = install hosed

2003-11-04 Thread csj
On Mon, 03 Nov 2003 19:42:08 -0500, Mental Patient wrote: [...] > Last time I broke libc, I fixed it by booting off my rescue > (knoppix) cd. Mounted all the filesystems under > /mnt/debian. It looked like > > /mnt/debian > /mnt/debian/boot > /mnt/debian/usr > /mnt/debian/var > > etc... > > I

Re: Crash in fork.c on everything = install hosed

2003-11-03 Thread Mental Patient
Malcolm Box wrote: OK, that looks like it might fix things. But can anyone tell me how to get the new version onto my machine given that both dpkg & apt-get don't work at the moment? Is there some way to manually unpack the files from the .deb into the right places? Malcolm Last time I bro

Re: Crash in fork.c on everything = install hosed

2003-11-03 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Malcolm Box" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Paul Scott wrote: > >> Malcolm Box wrote: >> >> >>> Near as I can tell, this is an assertion somewhere in the bowels of >>> libc - a nasty place for things to go wrong. The error seems to be >>> affecting anything trying to do certain type of fork() ope

Re: Crash in fork.c on everything = install hosed

2003-11-03 Thread Malcolm Box
Paul Scott wrote: Malcolm Box wrote: Near as I can tell, this is an assertion somewhere in the bowels of libc - a nasty place for things to go wrong. The error seems to be affecting anything trying to do certain type of fork() operations. Among others, it has taken out apt-get and dpkg :-( I

Re: Crash in fork.c on everything = install hosed

2003-11-02 Thread Paul Scott
Malcolm Box wrote: Hi, I'm running unstable, and did an apt-get dist-upgrade this evening. The result was a crash in dpkg with the following error message: apt-get: ../nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/fork.c:132: __libc_fork: Assertion `({ __typeof (self->tid) __value; if (sizeof (__value) == 1)

Crash in fork.c on everything = install hosed

2003-11-02 Thread Malcolm Box
Hi, I'm running unstable, and did an apt-get dist-upgrade this evening. The result was a crash in dpkg with the following error message: apt-get: ../nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/fork.c:132: __libc_fork: Assertion `({ __typeof (self->tid) __value; if (sizeof (__value) == 1) asm volatile ("movb