Further to my earlier posting (attached below) I have had some further insight into the problem. It appears that the problem stems from the 'sleep' utility. If I call sleep from the command line with any numeric argument, it outputs 'Illegal instruction'. This appears to be whatever is causing problems with the post-install config of various packages (currently mysql-server and ssh).
The version information for sleep suggests it's part of the GNU sh-utils (version 2.0.11) but I'm not able to find a package that corresponds with an apt-cache search. I have a sneaking suspicion that I could remedy this particular ill if I were able to reinstall/upgrade these utilities. Can anyone help here? Cheers, Ben -- original message -- Hi, I've just started setting up a new Debian box, and after installing from the 3.0r1 woody CD, I switched to using unstable package sources from ftp.uk.debian.org. One of the packages updated as a result of installing Apache was libc6 (2.3.2-8) which failed to install correctly. The output from dpkg (citing a line in libc6.postinst) was something like: Illegal instruction sleep 1 I've tried reverting /etc/apt/sources.list to use stable sources and then manually attempted to install an older version of libc6 (2.2.5-11.5) with dpkg, but this failed with an error message about libdb1-compat. I then began installing a few other packages and the libc6 error (from dpkg) mysteriously disappeared (hence I can't recall it exactly). At first I thought the problem had solved itself, but now I get the same illegal instruction message when attempting to install mysql-server. It appears libc6 is in some way broken. Is there any means by which I can revert to an earlier version of libc6 without catastrophic consequences (I'm aware that it can't just be removed and reinstalled)? Is this a known issue with unstable libc6 (I couldn't find anything with a few googlings, nor in the debian-user archive)? Any help or advice would be much appreciated! Ben Darlow ---------------------------Disclaimer--------------------------- Unless obviously public, this email is confidential to the intended recipient(s). If you received it in error please tell the sender and then delete it. We check emails from dyslexic.com and iansyst.co.uk, but you should virus check incoming emails. Emails do not always represent our official policy or a contract. Errors and omissions are excepted. iANSYST Ltd, Fen House, Fen Road, CAMBRIDGE, CB4 1UN. T +44(0)1223 420101; Fax +44(0) 1223 42 66 44; [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
