Re: strange apt-get upgrade issue

2002-10-09 Thread Chris McCormick
At 17:54 9/10/2002 +0800, Crispin Wellington wrote: >On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 08:16, Chris McCormick wrote: > > >So your package system has libc6 marked as installed but /lib/libc.so.6 > > >is not there. Is that correct? > > > > No, it has /lib/libc.so.6 but it's just a previous version. > > > > I gu

Re: strange apt-get upgrade issue

2002-10-09 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 08:16, Chris McCormick wrote: > >So your package system has libc6 marked as installed but /lib/libc.so.6 > >is not there. Is that correct? > > No, it has /lib/libc.so.6 but it's just a previous version. > > I guess this problem is going to be the dpkg race condition that Co

Re: strange apt-get upgrade issue

2002-10-08 Thread Chris McCormick
At 22:15 8/10/2002 +0800, Crispin Wellington wrote: >On Tue, 2002-10-08 at 14:59, Chris McCormick wrote: > > At 18:32 7/10/2002 +0800, Crispin Wellington wrote: > > > > >ls -alF /lib/libc[-.]* > > > > > >-rwxr-xr-x1 root root 888096 Sep 26 02:30 > > >/lib/libc-2.1.3.so* > > >lrwxrwxr

Re: strange apt-get upgrade issue

2002-10-08 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 10:15:21PM +0800, Crispin Wellington wrote: > On Tue, 2002-10-08 at 14:59, Chris McCormick wrote: > > At 18:32 7/10/2002 +0800, Crispin Wellington wrote: > > >ls -alF /lib/libc[-.]* > > > > > >-rwxr-xr-x1 root root 888096 Sep 26 02:30 > > >/lib/libc-2.1.3.so*

Re: strange apt-get upgrade issue

2002-10-08 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Tue, 2002-10-08 at 14:59, Chris McCormick wrote: > At 18:32 7/10/2002 +0800, Crispin Wellington wrote: > > >ls -alF /lib/libc[-.]* > > > >-rwxr-xr-x1 root root 888096 Sep 26 02:30 > >/lib/libc-2.1.3.so* > >lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 13 Oct 7 18:17 /lib/libc.so.6 > >-

Re: strange apt-get upgrade issue

2002-10-07 Thread Chris McCormick
At 18:32 7/10/2002 +0800, Crispin Wellington wrote: >On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 16:40, Chris McCormick wrote: > > I'm suspecting i might have some kind of broken glibc action going on. I > > think that it might not be able to re-attach to tar because of an actual > > corruption in the library binaries

Re: strange apt-get upgrade issue

2002-10-07 Thread Chris McCormick
e it's the correct place. > > > > I am having a strange apt-get upgrade issue on one of our production boxes: > > > > xx:~# apt-get update > > [this works fine] > > > > xx:~# apt-get upgrade > > Reading Package Lists... Done > > B

Re: strange apt-get upgrade issue

2002-10-07 Thread Mike Egglestone
Hi, What does your /etc/apt/sources.list say? Mike Quoting Chris McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi! > Firstly, my apologies if this is the wrong forum to post to, but from what > I've seen it seems like it's the correct place. > > I am having a strange apt-

Re: strange apt-get upgrade issue

2002-10-07 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 06:32:22PM +0800, Crispin Wellington wrote: > On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 16:40, Chris McCormick wrote: > > I'm suspecting i might have some kind of broken glibc action going on. I > > think that it might not be able to re-attach to tar because of an actual > > corruption in th

Re: strange apt-get upgrade issue

2002-10-07 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 16:40, Chris McCormick wrote: > I'm suspecting i might have some kind of broken glibc action going on. I > think that it might not be able to re-attach to tar because of an actual > corruption in the library binaries that handle that kind of thing. Maybe > it's half instal

Re: strange apt-get upgrade issue

2002-10-07 Thread Chris McCormick
At 09:36 7/10/2002 +0100, you wrote: >On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 01:33:27PM +0800, Crispin Wellington wrote: > > On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 12:57, Chris McCormick wrote: > > > At 12:41 7/10/2002 +0800, you wrote: > > > >Can you dump it on a webpage and post the URL to the list? > > > > > > Sure, > > > htt

Re: strange apt-get upgrade issue

2002-10-07 Thread Chris McCormick
At 13:33 7/10/2002 +0800, you wrote: >On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 12:57, Chris McCormick wrote: > > At 12:41 7/10/2002 +0800, you wrote: > > >On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 12:34, Chris McCormick wrote: > > > > >You could try comparing straces of the dpkg command when it works and > > > > >when it doesn't work >

Re: strange apt-get upgrade issue

2002-10-07 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 01:33:27PM +0800, Crispin Wellington wrote: > On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 12:57, Chris McCormick wrote: > > At 12:41 7/10/2002 +0800, you wrote: > > >Can you dump it on a webpage and post the URL to the list? > > > > Sure, > > http://203.59.70.242/strace_dpkg_output.txt > > [pi

Re: strange apt-get upgrade issue

2002-10-06 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 12:57, Chris McCormick wrote: > At 12:41 7/10/2002 +0800, you wrote: > >On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 12:34, Chris McCormick wrote: > > > >You could try comparing straces of the dpkg command when it works and > > > >when it doesn't work > > > > > > > >strace -fF dpkg -X packagename.

Re: strange apt-get upgrade issue

2002-10-06 Thread Chris McCormick
At 12:41 7/10/2002 +0800, you wrote: >On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 12:34, Chris McCormick wrote: > > >You could try comparing straces of the dpkg command when it works and > > >when it doesn't work > > > > > >strace -fF dpkg -X packagename.deb /path/to/testdir 2>strace.output > > > > Excellent suggestio

Re: strange apt-get upgrade issue

2002-10-06 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 12:34, Chris McCormick wrote: > >You could try comparing straces of the dpkg command when it works and > >when it doesn't work > > > >strace -fF dpkg -X packagename.deb /path/to/testdir 2>strace.output > > Excellent suggestion - at the moment I can't get it to run correctly

Re: strange apt-get upgrade issue

2002-10-06 Thread Chris McCormick
At 12:11 7/10/2002 +0800, Crispin Wellington wrote: >Hello there stranger! Hey Crispin :) >On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 10:48, Chris McCormick wrote: > > > > I've searched through the mailing list archives and found one post where > > someone had the same problem, but it "mysteriously went away". > > S

Re: strange apt-get upgrade issue

2002-10-06 Thread Crispin Wellington
Hello there stranger! On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 10:48, Chris McCormick wrote: > > I've searched through the mailing list archives and found one post where > someone had the same problem, but it "mysteriously went away". > Sometimes If I manually unpack the archives using dpkg-deb --unpack it > work

strange apt-get upgrade issue

2002-10-06 Thread Chris McCormick
Hi! Firstly, my apologies if this is the wrong forum to post to, but from what I've seen it seems like it's the correct place. I am having a strange apt-get upgrade issue on one of our production boxes: xx:~# apt-get update [this works fine] xx:~# apt-get upgrade Reading Pac