| Stephen Gran on 1 Aug 2007 13:33:52 -0000 |
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On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 08:48:43AM -0400, Mike Leone said: > SO I never got around to upgrading my home server (running Debian > testing) from kernel 2.4 to 2.6. Then today I did some upgrades, and - > not paying too much attention - didn't realize that one of the things I > told it to upgrade requires libc6 for kernel 2.6.x. > > <SIGH> > > So now it won't install this version of libc6, without a kernel 2.6. I > tried to tell it to install linux-image-2.6.21, figuring that would get > me a kernel 2.6 machine. But of course, the kernel 2.6 won't install, > since apt-get is trying to install libc6 first (which is failing). > > So how do I fix this? I'd like to get to kernel 2.6.21, *then* install > the simple updates I was trying for (I was trying to upgrade aptitude to > the latest version, when I screwed myself over this way). > > Any help appreciated. The system (which is my mail server) is running, > and I won't reboot it (or touch it ... :-)) until I can get this resolved. apt will be preventing the kernel install because some of the helper tools will have been built against this version of the c library, and dependencies are making them uninstallable. You basically have 3 choices: Grab older versions of the helper tools from snapshot.debian.net and then install a 2.6 kernel. The should be things like module-init-tools, initramfs-tools, and so on. Downgrade libc6. dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.5.something may work, although you may need to force downgrade several other packages at the same time. Drop in a hand build kernel, reboot into it, and then retry the upgade. Good luck, -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Stephen Gran | Ask not what's inside your head, but | | steve@lobefin.net | what your head's inside of. -- J. J. | | http://www.lobefin.net/~steve | Gibson | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Attachment:
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