On 2021-03-05 14:41 +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > control: notfound -1 libc6/2.28-10 > control: found -1 libc6/2.31-9 > control: severity -1 grave > > On 2021-03-04 19:26, Thomas Hahn wrote: >> Package: libc6 >> Version: 2.28-10 >> Severity: normal >> X-Debbugs-Cc: thah...@t-online.de >> >> Dear Maintainer, >> >> installed buster, then apt upgrade was also fine, >> but the following dist-upgrade put the system in a broken state. >> >> Preparing to unpack .../62-locales_2.31-9_all.deb ... >> Unpacking locales (2.31-9) over (2.28-10) ... >> Preparing to unpack .../63-openssh-server_1%3a8.4p1-4_amd64.deb ... >> Unpacking openssh-server (1:8.4p1-4) over (1:7.9p1-10+deb10u2) ... >> Preparing to unpack .../64-libc6_2.31-9_amd64.deb ... >> whiptail: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.29' not >> found (required by /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libslang.so.2) > > This seems to show that libslang2 has been wrongly unpacked before > libc6. Do you happen to have the beginning of the log? You can find it > in /var/log/apt/term.log.* > >> debconf: whiptail output the above errors, giving up! >> Checking for services that may need to be restarted...dpkg: error >> processing archive >> /tmp/apt-dpkg-install-I51xYx/64-libc6_2.31-9_amd64.deb (--unpack): >> new libc6:amd64 package pre-installation script subprocess returned error >> exit status 255 >> Selecting previously unselected package libcrypt1:amd64. >> dpkg: considering deconfiguration of libc6:amd64, which would be broken by >> installation of libcrypt1:amd64 ... >> dpkg: yes, will deconfigure libc6:amd64 (broken by libcrypt1:amd64) >> Preparing to unpack .../65-libcrypt1_1%3a4.4.17-1_amd64.deb ... >> De-configuring libc6:amd64 (2.28-10) ... >> Unpacking libcrypt1:amd64 (1:4.4.17-1) ... >> Errors were encountered while processing: >> /tmp/apt-dpkg-install-I51xYx/64-libc6_2.31-9_amd64.deb >> Error: Timeout was reached >> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > > To unbreak your system the best would be to unpack libc6 manually using > the following command: > dpkg -x /var/cache/apt/libc6_2.31-9_amd64.deb /
No, never do that! This command actually runs "dpkg-deb -x" which, unlike "dpkg -i", will silently overwrite symlinks to directories on the filesystem with directories contained in the package. This is very bad if /lib is a symlink to /usr/lib (the "usrmerge" layout). Cheers, Sven