On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 04:13:42AM +0300, Antonis Antoniou wrote: > 2008/9/25 Sven Joachim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > 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.
busybox-static, if youi happen to have it installed. Any chance you still have a browser running there? It should be able to download files from a remote host. > > > I wish, I could execute dpkg but I cannot. > I have the old package and it lies on > /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.5-11_amd64.deb Short of that, I guess that the only way to fix this is to boot in a rescue system, copy stuff in and chroot. Any better suggestions? -- Tzafrir Cohen | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | best ICQ# 16849754 | | friend -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
