Package: libc6 Version: 2.3.6-7 I am somewhat of a noob so I hope I'm in the right place (and not totally off base).
I installed Debian Sarge with the i386 2.4.27 kernel. I use 'stable' for most of my system but install a few packages from 'testing'. I installed a program from testing (mdadm) that brought libc6 version 2.3.6-7 along with it. Now I cannot run some programs, for example: ~# mkinitrd -o temp 2.4.27-3-686 /bin/bash: error while loading shared libraries: libdl.so.2: \ cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory I thought this might be because the new libc6 is not compatible with older kernels, so, as a test I installed sarge kernel 2.6.8: apt-get install kernel-image-2.6.8-2-386 but this did not help. So I tried installing: apt-get install linux-image-2.6.15-1-486 (Note: In my experience migrating from kernel-image kernels to linux-image kernels tends to break RAID.) but I still get the same error. I think this problem may break a lot of systems. As another test I upgraded initrd-tools to the 'testing' version and got these errors: mkinitrd -o temp 2.4.27-3-686 /bin/bash: error while loading shared libraries: libdl.so.2: \ cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory sort: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: \ cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory awk: error while loading shared libraries: libm.so.6: \ cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory grep: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: \ cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory As a final test, I did an: apt-get -t testing dist-upgrade (which I had problems with - had to install x11-common with force overwrite). During the dist-upgrade, because of this same error: Using /usr/sbin/mkinitrd to build the ramdisk. Full list of probed ramdisk generating tools : /usr/sbin/mkinitrd \ /usr/sbin/mkinitrd.yaird /usr/sbin/mkinitramfs. /bin/bash: error while loading shared libraries: libdl.so.2: \ cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory grep: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: \ cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory sort: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: \ cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory awk: error while loading shared libraries: libm.so.6: \ cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Trying to upgrade the kernel once again resulted in this: Could not find mkinitramfs-kpkg mkinitrd.yaird. at /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/preinst \line 236, <STDIN> line 9. Done. Setting up linux-image-2.6.15-1-686 (2.6.15-8) ... Running depmod. Finding valid ramdisk creators. Failed to find suitable ramdisk generation tool for kernel version 2.6.15-1-686 on running kernel 2.4.27-3-586tsc in mkinitramfs-kpkg mkinitrd.yaird Any simple way to fix this issue? Gary V -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
