Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 07:29:22AM +1100, Jonathan Wheelhouse said > > Hi > > > > I get this when running aptitude: [snip] > > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg received a segmentation fault. > > Ack! Something bad happened while installing packages. Trying to recover: [snip] > > I cannot install the new version what do I do? > > A .deb is an ar archive containing two tarballs. You can extract the > new libc like this: > > $ ar x libc6_2.3.2.ds1-9_i386.deb
[snip some good advice] Thanks, I did something like this by essentially following the same advice from another thread. However, I had one complication - my / partition (about 50 meg) was 100% full. I had to move some stuff to /var before being able to follow the advice. Tonight I fixed the filling up / partition by using GNU parted to copy /dev/hda5 (mounted as /) to the windows partition (/dev/hda1 which is about 600 meg), modifying /etc/fstab and /etc/lilo.conf and running lilo. Crossed my fingers - everything went almost smoothly; Debian is running fine now. I know 600 meg is too much for / as I have /var, /tmp/, /home, /usr and /usr/local on separate partitions but resizing partitions is pretty dangerous and I don't really have a backup strategy yet (other than saving a gnucash file to floppy). So this is something I will leave for another day. Anyhow, thanks again for the good advice. Jonathan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
