I think I have a hosed machine but maybe someone here is smart enough to recover it.
I dusted off an old 2.0.x machine and decided to upgrade its Debian install (I believe it was running pre-potato install). Anyway, the first thing I did was upgrade libc6, libstdc++ and apt to the woody versions because the old apt was complaining about various things. I managed to do that and proceeded to apt-get install aptitude kernel-source-2.4.21 (I have testing in sources.list).
Bad idea. Something got partially upgraded (libc6?) before the session crapped out with "FATAL: kernel too old." Now I can't even run "ls" or anything else on the machine. Built-in shell commands work ok (isn't `echo *' fun?). I don't dare reboot.
Any ideas on how to solve this problem? I'm surprised apt didn't complain about a dependecy problem. Searching google turned up some threads about compiling libc6 with old kernels so that's what I'm guessing this is a libc6 issue.
I just moved so my e-mail infrastructure is not all there yet (hence the need for the old box). Please copy my e-mail address on any replies as I'm not subscribed to the list. Thanks for understanding.
-Dave
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