On 2008-09-25 19:15 +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote: > The problem may be that all your other programs were compiled against > the version you had installed previously (which, as I remember, was > quite old).
No, not that old -- even newer than the version in Etch. > libc6 is a very, very important package. You cannot upgrade it to > another major version without upgrading half of your system. This is simply not true. >>> To me this looks like your new libc6 is very broken and now nothing >>> using it (which is about everything) will work. But i might be wrong. > > Correction: I guess it isn't broken in any way, it's just that all your > other programs are linked to an older version and don't work with the > new one. Please stop spreading that clueless FUD. In fact, the glibc has been upward-compatible for more than 10 years and will likely remain so for another decade. >> Basically I cannot exec rsync, scp >> If I manage to get the old libc6, I used to have, and manage some how to >> install it (since I cannot execute dpkg) it wil work (in theory)? > > Yes, I think so. Only that it will be difficult to unpack it, unless there is some statically linked program on the system that can do that. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
