"Malcolm Box" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Paul Scott wrote: > >> Malcolm Box wrote: >> <snip symptoms> >> >>> Near as I can tell, this is an assertion somewhere in the bowels of >>> libc - a nasty place for things to go wrong. The error seems to be >>> affecting anything trying to do certain type of fork() operations. >>> Among others, it has taken out apt-get and dpkg :-( >> >> I just posted the same thing two days ago. >> >> Thanks to Jacob Lell. Bug 218546. >> It's fixed in the latest libc6. > > OK, that looks like it might fix things. But can anyone tell me how > to get the new version onto my machine given that both dpkg & apt-get > don't work at the moment? Is there some way to manually unpack the > files from the .deb into the right places?
I've never done it, but there's nothing magical about *.deb files. They're simple "ar" archive files, usually containing a data.tar.gz and control.tar.gz file, among other things. For your purposes you could try and untar the data.tar.gz file, which would contain the actually libc binaries and go from there. Gary -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
