On 09.09.07 19:34, Chris Austin wrote: > I have had a Debian system working very well since 2003, when I installed it > from the Stable system, which was Woody at the time. Recently I wanted to > install the gap package, (Groups, Algorithms and Programming computer > algebra system), and for this I had to start upgrading packages to the > current Stable system, which is Etch. However I hit a circular dependency > problem trying to upgrade libc6, so started upgrading packages with the > Check Dependencies checkbox deselected, in the KPackage windows that were > started by Konqueror, when I downloaded packages from the Debian website. > At some stage e2fsprogs and e2fslibs were upgraded in this way, but I always > hit an error trying to upgrade libc6, even after I exited KDE and tried to > stop kdm with the kill signal in top. I then found that kdm no longer > restarted KDE, so to access the Internet I had to dual boot to MS Windows. > Trying to reboot in Linux now starts a file system that is Read Only, with > lots of warnings and errors. It seems from some of the error messages that > I now need to install the libuuid1 package, but I cannot do this because the > file system is started Read Only. I can get a writable file system by > booting from the old Woody rescue.bin floppy, but file locations then need > to be prepended by /target, and dpkg gives an error message: relocation > error, symbol _obstack_begin, version GLIBC_2.0 not defined in file > libc.so.6 with link time reference.
That's why yyou should never upgrade across two versions. You still can upgrade to sarge and then to etch. -- Matus UHLAR - fantomas, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; http://www.fantomas.sk/ Warning: I wish NOT to receive e-mail advertising to this address. Varovanie: na tuto adresu chcem NEDOSTAVAT akukolvek reklamnu postu. "Two words: Windows survives." - Craig Mundie, Microsoft senior strategist "So does syphillis. Good thing we have penicillin." - Matthew Alton -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
