Thanks. That worked and I'm back into Debian. I downloaded the tar.gz file and opened it in OSX. Copied the files to my HFS partition and rebooted using the Debian install CD 1. Mounted the / partition and the HFS partition and then copied the libc-2.3.1.so file over the broken one.
rebooted and all is fine. Thanks Joss On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 11:03:59AM +0200, Mich Lanners wrote: > On 12 Jul, this message from Joss Winn echoed through cyberspace: > > Yep, this caught me out at midnight last night and I've yet to > > tackle it. > > I can only boot into runlevel two (where booting now stops). It > > won't let me login though. > > Yeah; not a lot you can do... I was able to mke it boot by specifying > init=/bin/sh. However, I found no way to downgrade libc6 before I shot > myself in the foot and was forced to boot from another disk.... > > > My plan was to use the debian install cd 1 to boot and mount the > > linux partition. I should be able to downgrade from there, right? > > That should be possible... hmmm... I have put up a .tgz archive on my > site containing just libc and its associated symbolic link. When booting > from the install CD, you can untar that over the bad libc (from within > /target/lib). > > It's available here: > > http://www.cpu.lu/~mlan/ftp/debian/libc6/ > > > What is the downgraded command I should be using? > > I usd dpkg; I'm sure some apt-get can also do it, but I was too lazy to > look it up. On my site I have put the relevant .debs; get them and > insall them thus: > > dpkg -i libc6*deb locale*deb > > Cheers > > Michel > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Michel Lanners | " Read Philosophy. Study Art. > 23, Rue Paul Henkes | Ask Questions. Make Mistakes. > L-1710 Luxembourg | > email [EMAIL PROTECTED] | > http://www.cpu.lu/~mlan | Learn Always. " --
