[conspire] wedged Debian Sid (Bill Moseley)

[Edmund J. Biow]

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I have no insight to offer, Bill, I'm just extremely impressed that
you were able to follow Sid for a number of years on multiple machines
and have only borked one install.  Well done.  I get the feeling that
is quite an accomplishment.

I've got a couple of Sidux boxes, CHAOS & GAIA, and that is
adventurous enough for me.  At this point xorg 7.3 has been released
from hold by the SMXI script that the distro uses to upgrade from INIT
3, and I have to admit, the thought of doing a dist-upgrade gives me
hives since everything works nicely now, but with a SID-based distro,
I gather you are really better off doing a DU at least once a month if
you don't want to chance breakage.

- -EJB
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>    1. wedged Debian Sid (Bill Moseley)
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> Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 13:56:40 -0700
> From: Bill Moseley <moseley at hank.org>
> Subject: [conspire] wedged Debian Sid
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> After a few years following Sid I've finally got a problem on one of
> my machines.
>
> Trying to run an update it says I need to install glibc which then
> says:
>
>     Do you want to upgrade glibc now? [Y/n]
>
>     WARNING: POSIX threads library NPTL requires kernel version
>     2.6.8 or later. If you use a kernel 2.4, please upgrade it
>     before installing glibc.
>
> Then trying to install
>
> $ sudo apt-get install -t etch linux-image-2.6.22-2-k7
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree... Done
> You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these:
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>   kernel-patch-xfs: Depends: grep-dctrl
>   libc6-dev: Depends: libc6 (= 2.6.1-5) but 2.5-9+b1 is to be installed
>   linux-image-2.6.22-2-k7: Depends: initramfs-tools (>= 0.55) but it is
not going to be installed or
>                                     yaird (>= 0.0.12-8) but it is not
going to be installed or
>                                     linux-initramfs-tool
>   locales: Depends: glibc-2.6-1
> E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or
specify a solution).
>
>
> I asked on debian-user and someone suggested:
>
> - boot a Debian(-based) live/rescue CD with a new enough kernel
> - chroot into your normal installation
> - update libc6 et al.
> - install the new kernel image
> - verify that grub knows about the new kernel
> - reboot your system with the new kernel image
>
>
> This seem sane, or is there anything else someone could recommend?
>
>
> $ uname -a
> Linux bumby 2.6.6-xfs-athlon #1 Thu Jul 22 15:22:53 PDT 2004 i686 GNU/Linux
>
> It's an Athlon XP 1800+ with xfs file system.  I think I had to patch
> in xfs last time I build the kernel (whichlooks like, eh, about 2004).
>
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> Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 13:56:40 -0700
> From: Bill Moseley <moseley at hank.org>
> Subject: [conspire] wedged Debian Sid
> To: conspire at linuxmafia.com
> Message-ID: <20071002205640.GA10254 at hank.org>
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> After a few years following Sid I've finally got a problem on one of
> my machines.
>
> Trying to run an update it says I need to install glibc which then
> says:
>
>     Do you want to upgrade glibc now? [Y/n]
>
>     WARNING: POSIX threads library NPTL requires kernel version
>     2.6.8 or later. If you use a kernel 2.4, please upgrade it
>     before installing glibc.
>
> Then trying to install
>
> $ sudo apt-get install -t etch linux-image-2.6.22-2-k7
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree... Done
> You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these:
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>   kernel-patch-xfs: Depends: grep-dctrl
>   libc6-dev: Depends: libc6 (= 2.6.1-5) but 2.5-9+b1 is to be installed
>   linux-image-2.6.22-2-k7: Depends: initramfs-tools (>= 0.55) but it is
not going to be installed or
>                                     yaird (>= 0.0.12-8) but it is not
going to be installed or
>                                     linux-initramfs-tool
>   locales: Depends: glibc-2.6-1
> E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or
specify a solution).
>
>
> I asked on debian-user and someone suggested:
>
> - boot a Debian(-based) live/rescue CD with a new enough kernel
> - chroot into your normal installation
> - update libc6 et al.
> - install the new kernel image
> - verify that grub knows about the new kernel
> - reboot your system with the new kernel image
>
>
> This seem sane, or is there anything else someone could recommend?
>
>
> $ uname -a
> Linux bumby 2.6.6-xfs-athlon #1 Thu Jul 22 15:22:53 PDT 2004 i686 GNU/Linux
>
> It's an Athlon XP 1800+ with xfs file system.  I think I had to patch
> in xfs last time I build the kernel (whichlooks like, eh, about 2004).
>
>
>
>

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