Bug#629983: [libc6] I also had this on possible upgrade to 2.13-6

2011-06-12 Thread David Baron
Package: libc6 Version: 2.13-4 --- Please enter the report below this line. --- Problem is that, whatever be the offending file, the only alternatives are to go ahead anyway or abort ALL upgrades. On my system, six packages are pulled with lib6 upgrades. The mix of new and old will crash out X,

Bug#630608: [bash] Everything Segfaults After lib6 -7 Upgrade

2011-06-16 Thread David Baron
On Thursday 14 Sivan 5771 00:25:42 you wrote: > reassign 630608 libc6 2.13-7 > quit > > Hi David, > > David Baron wrote: > > After upgrading lib6 to current Sid (-7), everything, I mean everything > > segfaults. System will boot up very normally but as soon a

Bug#630608: [bash] Everything Segfaults After lib6 -7 Upgrade

2011-06-19 Thread David Baron
On Sunday 17 Sivan 5771 02:22:46 Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Hi David, > > David Baron wrote: > (out of order for convenience) > > > Note that there is no "root." I have a working /lib with (mostly) testing > > libc6 et al packages and lib-sid which has the -7

Bug#630608: Old Bug Found Googling

2011-06-19 Thread David Baron
A very similar bug reported years back. Culprit was libc6-i686. Bug#586241. Relevant?

Bug#630608: [bash] Everything Segfaults After lib6 -7 Upgrade

2011-06-20 Thread David Baron
I was looking at the content of my /lib variations. Very interesting. The testing one I am using now las libc.so.6 -> libc-2.13.so dated May 12. The "sid" one I copied from the segfaulting /lib has libc.so.6 -> libc-2.11.2.so dated JUNE! Something is amiss here, huh? All the 2.13 files, symlinks

Bug#630608: [bash] Everything Segfaults After lib6 -7 Upgrade

2011-06-20 Thread David Baron
On Monday 18 Sivan 5771 20:18:42 David Baron wrote: > I was looking at the content of my /lib variations. Very interesting. > > The testing one I am using now las libc.so.6 -> libc-2.13.so dated May 12. > The "sid" one I copied from the segfaulting /lib has libc.so.6

Bug#630608: [bash] Everything Segfaults After lib6 -7 Upgrade

2011-06-20 Thread David Baron
On Monday 18 Sivan 5771 21:16:28 David Baron wrote: > On Monday 18 Sivan 5771 20:18:42 David Baron wrote: > > I was looking at the content of my /lib variations. Very interesting. > > > > The testing one I am using now las libc.so.6 -> libc-2.13.so dated May > > 1

Bug#630608: [bash] Everything Segfaults After lib6 -7 Upgrade

2011-06-21 Thread David Baron
On Tuesday 19 Sivan 5771 01:21:46 Aurelien Jarno wrote: > On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 10:30:45PM +0300, David Baron wrote: > > On Monday 18 Sivan 5771 21:16:28 David Baron wrote: > > > On Monday 18 Sivan 5771 20:18:42 David Baron wrote: > > > > I was looking at the conte

Bug#630608: [bash] Everything Segfaults After lib6 -7 Upgrade

2011-06-21 Thread David Baron
> * * * * * > > > > > So to clean up this system, would I: > > > > > 1. remove ALL 2.11.2 files in /lib (making sure there are no > > > > > symlinks to them). > > > > > 2. NOW, re-upgrade to 2.13-7 > > > > > > > > > > What happened before: > > > > > 1. I myself placed the 2.11.2 files from the liv

Bug#630608: [bash] Everything Segfaults After lib6 -7 Upgrade

2011-06-21 Thread David Baron
> > I, of course, did not touch the 2.13 ones. There are actually only a few > > of them but are locally symlinked. There would be three version of > > these, on /lib, lib/i386-gnu... and /lib/i686/cmov. The ones I checked a > > all different. > > > > > > Should the /lib ones be actually be remov

Bug#630608: [bash] Everything Segfaults After lib6 -7 Upgrade

2011-06-21 Thread David Baron
On Tuesday 19 Sivan 5771 18:21:35 Aurelien Jarno wrote: > Le 21/06/2011 16:59, David Baron a écrit : > >> > I, of course, did not touch the 2.13 ones. There are actually only a > >> > few > >> > > >> > of them but are locally symlinked. There

Bug#630608: [bash] Everything Segfaults After lib6 -7 Upgrade

2011-06-21 Thread David Baron
On Tuesday 19 Sivan 5771 20:00:29 Aurelien Jarno wrote: > > Do please check over the pre/post/install scripts involved so this mess > > does not recur :-) > > I don't really know what can be done, the preinst script already abort > the installation if a non-dpkg owned version of ld.so is found. A

Bug#630608: [bash] Everything Segfaults After lib6 -7 Upgrade

2011-06-21 Thread David Baron
> I don't think the preinst script should take care of all these issues. > When you defined LD_LIBRARY_PATH you should assume the consequences. Should /lib NOT be there?

Bug#630608: [bash] Everything Segfaults After lib6 -7 Upgrade

2011-06-21 Thread David Baron
On Tuesday 19 Sivan 5771 20:52:17 Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Aurelien Jarno wrote: > > I don't think the preinst script should take care of all these issues. > > When you defined LD_LIBRARY_PATH you should assume the consequences. > > I wonder if it would make sense to mention this (including a hint

Bug#630608: [bash] Everything Segfaults After lib6 -7 Upgrade

2011-06-21 Thread David Baron
On Tuesday 19 Sivan 5771 21:05:01 Aurelien Jarno wrote: > On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 09:03:27PM +0300, David Baron wrote: > > > I don't think the preinst script should take care of all these issues. > > > When you defined LD_LIBRARY_PATH you should assume the consequences. &

Bug#630608: [bash] Everything Segfaults After lib6 -7 Upgrade

2011-06-22 Thread David Baron
On Tuesday 19 Sivan 5771 21:41:13 Aurelien Jarno wrote: > On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 09:28:19PM +0300, David Baron wrote: > > On Tuesday 19 Sivan 5771 20:42:14 you wrote: > > > On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 08:15:49PM +0300, David Baron wrote: > > > > On Tuesday 19 Sivan 5771

Bug#760159: [tzdata] Sets UTC to current local time, obvious consequences

2014-09-01 Thread David Baron
Package: tzdata Version: 2014g-1 Severity: normal --- Please enter the report below this line. --- The post-install configuration and manually doing dpkg-reconfigure will set UTC to the current local time, then local time offset from this. Setting from calendar widget, resetting ntp, can correct

Bug#760159: [tzdata] Sets UTC to current local time, obvious consequences

2014-10-08 Thread David Baron
On Tuesday 07 October 2014 23:09:19 Aurelien Jarno wrote: > control: tag -1 + moreinfo > > On Mon, Sep 01, 2014 at 03:03:46PM +0300, David Baron wrote: > > Package: tzdata > > Version: 2014g-1 > > Severity: normal > > > > --- Please enter the report be

Bug#760159: [tzdata] Sets UTC to current local time, obvious consequences

2014-10-08 Thread David Baron
Just upgraded tzdata, tzdata-java to the 2014-h2 version without much ado. System local, UTC times were NOT disrupted. So if post-install has been fixed (or some other unrelated package affected the problem), might close. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-glibc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Bug#760159: [tzdata] Sets UTC to current local time, obvious consequences

2014-10-16 Thread David Baron
On Thursday 16 October 2014 22:53:15 Aurelien Jarno wrote: > On Wed, Oct 08, 2014 at 12:15:27PM +0300, David Baron wrote: > > Just upgraded tzdata, tzdata-java to the 2014-h2 version without much ado. > > System local, UTC times were NOT disrupted. > > > > So if post

Bug#551158: Is this bug still current

2009-11-19 Thread David Baron
I have be delaying a bunch of upgrades because of this. Had a system messed by libc6 before. Is this bug current? Only am64? Is it safe to upgrades these packages?!? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-glibc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...

Bug#740158: [libc6] Libc6, related packages smoked again

2014-02-26 Thread David Baron
Package: libc6 Version: 2.18-3 Severity: normal --- Please enter the report below this line. --- Get error on upgrade, whether or not one chooses to stop services and proceed. In synaptic, says need to stop kdm. Did that, still got the error Thankfully, 2.18-3 where it did get installed is OK an

Bug#740158: [libc6] Libc6, related packages smoked again

2014-02-26 Thread David Baron
On Wednesday, 26 February, 2014 14:59:44 Aurelien Jarno wrote: > On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 03:00:23PM +0200, David Baron wrote: > > Package: libc6 > > Version: 2.18-3 > > Severity: normal > > > > --- Please enter the report below this line. --- > > Get error

Bug#740158: [libc6] Libc6, related packages smoked again

2014-02-26 Thread David Baron
On Wednesday, 26 February, 2014 15:20:25 Aurelien Jarno wrote: > On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 04:12:04PM +0200, David Baron wrote: > > On Wednesday, 26 February, 2014 14:59:44 Aurelien Jarno wrote: > > > On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 03:00:23PM +0200, David Baron wrote: > > > >

Bug#740158: [libc6] Libc6, related packages smoked again

2014-02-26 Thread David Baron
On Wednesday, 26 February, 2014 15:42:31 Aurelien Jarno wrote: > On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 04:27:26PM +0200, David Baron wrote: > > On Wednesday, 26 February, 2014 15:20:25 Aurelien Jarno wrote: > > > On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 04:12:04PM +0200, David Baron wrote: > > >

Bug#740158: [libc6] Libc6, related packages smoked again

2014-02-26 Thread David Baron
On Wednesday, 26 February, 2014 15:42:31 Aurelien Jarno wrote: > On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 04:27:26PM +0200, David Baron wrote: > > On Wednesday, 26 February, 2014 15:20:25 Aurelien Jarno wrote: > > > On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 04:12:04PM +0200, David Baron wrote: > > >

Bug#740158: [libc6] Libc6, related packages smoked again

2014-02-27 Thread David Baron
I corrected the symlink in /lib64. apt-get -f install proceeded without a hitch. Can close this. However, as with previous upgrades that called out an "improper" or "foreign" file in the folders, might have told me this right off. Since it was not in the operational, easily and harmlessly fixe

Bug#887169: [libc6] Similar problems, other games, so ...

2018-01-16 Thread David Baron
Package: libc6 Version: sid --- Please enter the report below this line. --- gweled no longer runs! --- System information. --- Architecture: Kernel: Linux 4.14.0-2-amd64 Debian Release: buster/sid 500 yakkety ppa.launchpad.net 500 unstableftp.us.debian.org 500 te

Bug#420667: libc6 breaks bash, renders all compiles unusable

2007-04-23 Thread David Baron
Package: libc6 Version: 2.5-2 Severity: critical Justification: breaks unrelated software 1. Upgrade -- balks at symlinks in /usr/lib, asks user to remove them. BAD BAD BAD! 2. Once these removed, installs. Bash is now unusable--problem is in calls from bashrc, bash.bashrc, et al. bash -norc, sh (

Bug#420667: libc6 breaks bash, renders all compiles unusable

2007-04-24 Thread David Baron
On Tuesday 24 April 2007, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > David Baron a écrit : > > Package: libc6 > > Version: 2.5-2 > > Severity: critical > > Justification: breaks unrelated software > > > > 1. Upgrade -- balks at symlinks in /usr/lib, asks user to remove them

Bug#420949: New upgrade of libc6 2.5.* renders shells unusable

2007-04-25 Thread David Baron
On Wednesday 25 April 2007, you wrote: > David Baron a écrit : > > On Wednesday 25 April 2007, you wrote: > >> Aurelien Jarno a écrit : > >>> d_bron a écrit : > >>>> Package: libc6 > >>>> Version: 2.5-4 > >>>> Severity:

Bug#420949: New upgrade of libc6 2.5.* renders shells unusable

2007-04-25 Thread David Baron
On Wednesday 25 April 2007, you wrote: > Aurelien Jarno a écrit : > > d_bron a écrit : > >> Package: libc6 > >> Version: 2.5-4 > >> Severity: critical > >> Justification: breaks unrelated software > >> > >> Once again, with feeling. > >> 1. Attempt to fix up dependencies and upgrade using apt -4 in

Bug#420949: New upgrade of libc6 2.5.* renders shells unusable

2007-04-25 Thread David Baron
Some more odities that may or may not be relevant: With the downgraded (allbeit dependency-problematic) to 2.3*: sh run from kpackage fails looking for an .so.# library. sh run from anywhere else works fine bash (sh is simply a symlink to bash) runs fine. Opera run from a command line works fine.

Bug#420949: New upgrade of libc6 2.5.* renders shells unusable

2007-04-25 Thread David Baron
On Wednesday 25 April 2007, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > David Baron a écrit : > > Some more odities that may or may not be relevant: > > > > With the downgraded (allbeit dependency-problematic) to 2.3*: > > sh run from kpackage fails looking for an .so.# library. > >

Bug#420949: New upgrade of libc6 2.5.* renders shells unusable

2007-04-25 Thread David Baron
>> LD_ASSUME_KERNEL="2.6.1" /lib/ld-2.5.so /lib/libc.so.6 >I have a LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.19 in /etc/profile which was put there for >jackd. Maybe I should get rid of that! Tried that with the upgrade and >actually got into a bash login from the console but kdm would not restart to >test it ther

Bug#420949: New upgrade of libc6 2.5.* renders shells unusable

2007-04-25 Thread David Baron
>>> LD_ASSUME_KERNEL="2.6.1" /lib/ld-2.5.so /lib/libc.so.6 >>I have a LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.19 in /etc/profile which was put there for >>jackd. Maybe I should get rid of that! Tried that with the upgrade and >>actually got into a bash login from the console but kdm would not restart to >>test it

Bug#420949: New upgrade of libc6 2.5.* renders shells unusable

2007-04-28 Thread David Baron
> Any news about that? Could we close the bug? My Debian box is working 100% OK. Can upgrade other stuff as well. However: After a recent post about libc6 upgrade trashing someone's sarge, I recommend the following: 1. Pre-configure: Check running kernel. If not new enough, STOP NOW. Check curr