Re: apt-get torture - deadlock libc6

2007-12-22 Thread David Baron
No way out. 2.6 kernel for newer libc6. I had my bash murdered by this problem because I had a profile item pretending! that I had a 2.4 kernel. That was enough to kill most everything. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PRO

Re: apt-get torture - deadlock libc6

2007-12-21 Thread Brad Rogers
On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 08:49:12 -0800 Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Andrew, > never pass up a good excuse for more hardware!! ;) It doesn't even have to be good; *Any* excuse will do, IMO. :-) -- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly obvious is /

Re: apt-get torture - deadlock libc6

2007-12-21 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 08:08:07PM -0500, Carl Fink wrote: > On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 12:35:22PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > But now that the damage is done, I don't have much advice. Probably > > your best bet is to move up to sarge manually replacing packages as > > needed to remove

Re: apt-get torture - deadlock libc6

2007-12-20 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 11:05:37AM -0800, epic winter wrote: > > Now i need to figure out how to move forward... Define forward. I see from later posts that you want to revert to Woody. I have a complete set (all 7 CDs) of Woody, but I'm on dialup so it would take about a month to upload them s

Re: apt-get torture - deadlock libc6

2007-12-20 Thread Carl Fink
On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 12:35:22PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > But now that the damage is done, I don't have much advice. Probably > your best bet is to move up to sarge manually replacing packages as > needed to remove the etch upgrades. Disagree. In my mind the best bet is to get a

Re: apt-get torture - deadlock libc6

2007-12-20 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
take a deep breath and begin to analyse the system in detail -- look at installed versions of packages versus woody versions, figure out what you've changed and change it back piece-by-piece. use apt-show-versions, apt-cache, etc. good luck. A > > > -ryan > > > > Date

Re: apt-get torture - deadlock libc6

2007-12-20 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 11:05:37AM -0800, epic winter wrote: Now i need to figure out how to move forward... You must first install a 2.6 kernel. If you are building your own kernels, compile one yourself. If you are using the distribution kernel, install the appropriate linux-image-2.6-* pac

RE: apt-get torture - deadlock libc6

2007-12-20 Thread epic winter
Thanks. Sanity restored. Now i need to figure out how to move forward... > Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 10:56:17 -0800 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: apt-get torture - deadlock libc6 > > On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 10:34:20AM -0800,

Re: apt-get torture - deadlock libc6

2007-12-20 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 10:34:20AM -0800, epic winter wrote: > > Ok, but how do i get out of the deadlock? I can't use apt at all right now. probably take stable, testing and unstable out of your sources.list and apt* update would do it. A signature.asc Description: Digital signature

RE: apt-get torture - deadlock libc6

2007-12-20 Thread epic winter
Ok, but how do i get out of the deadlock? I can't use apt at all right now. > Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 19:27:56 +0100 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: apt-get torture - deadlock libc6 > > On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 09:54:54AM -

Re: apt-get torture - deadlock libc6

2007-12-20 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 09:54:54AM -0800, epic winter wrote: libc6 that seems to be associated with a 2.6 kernel. I am running a 2.4 kernel and have no intentions of upgrading. I see lots of messages [snip] WARNING: POSIX threads library NPTL requires kernel version 2.6.8 or later. If you use