On Sat, 2003-07-12 at 17:33, Mich Lanners wrote: > To those that are tracking unstable and haven't noticed (or haven't been > caught :-) yet:
I've been caught allright. And recovery was a 3 hour process! If anyone needs the libc6 2.3.1-16 packages, they can get it from ftp.debian.org. If not, mail me, and I'll upload it to my web space. If you can't downgrade, then the best thing to do is to get libc6-2.3.1-16, dpkg -X it (ie extract it to somewhere safe, ie /root) remove libc6-2.3.1-17 (this will make your system break!), and then boot using a cd (like debian install), mount your disk, and do a cp -dpRvf of the extracted to your target disk. Then reboot, and dpkg --install your libc6-2.3.1-16 just to sat dependencies and make things clean. When this problem occured for me, I could not install libc6-2.3.1-16 because I couldn't even chroot. So extracting by hand and then reinstalling was the only option really. \LaShI -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (Sid) (ibook2,powerpc), kernel 2.4.21-ben2-xfs Grub first, then ideals. -- Bertolt Brecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ICQ: 7181075 pub 1024D/CC1F67BC 2002-06-03 Menaka Lashitha Bandara (Freedom!) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Key fingerprint = 1874 5597 C754 5209 0A7D 4DA6 9112 5D0E CC1F 67BC
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