On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 07:03:45AM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: > On Sat, Sep 13, 2003 at 03:14:57PM -0300, Raul Montagne wrote: > > and upgrading "some" libraries, one of the libraries was libc6... > > and was not completely upgraded....it might be broken giving as a result > > an useless linux installation....isn't it? > > In fact, the booting process just freezes! > > Happened to me yesterday. I installed w3m, then apt-get updated libdl, > libncurses5, and libc6. But, in my case, the machine could be booted, > but bash wouldn't run. In the end, I couldn't get into the shell. > > Makes me wonder why is that so important lib (libc) which was broken got > uploaded into the distribution machines.
It's not broken for the glibc maintainers. If it doesn't work for you you need to help them understand the problem: helping to fix bugs is part of the implicit contract of using unstable, by my way of thinking. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
