| Stephen Gran on 1 Aug 2007 23:37:40 -0000 |
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On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 05:54:34PM -0400, Mike Leone said: > Stephen Gran (steve@lobefin.net) had this to say on 08/01/07 at 09:35: > > > > 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. > > Is there a list of all the "and so on"? :-) I was imagining that you could get pretty close by combining the output of apt-get install linux-image-2.6-686 or whatever with the output of `grep-dctrl -P linux-image-2.6.18-4-powerpc -s Package,Depends \ /var/lib/apt/lists/mirror.lobefin.net_debian_dists_etch_main_binary-powerpc_Packages` Salt to taste for your arch and sources.list. > > 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. > > I did do a "dpkg -i " libc6_2.3, and it said it installed. However, apt-get > -f install still wants to install libc6_2.6.21. That means that apt thinks the simplest solution is to upgrade it, which is a bit of a pain. You really only have two ways out of this: you'll have to fool apt for a bit into thinking that all conflicts are straightened out, or you need to get the new libc6 installed by using a kernel outside of the packaging system. > > Drop in a hand build kernel, reboot into it, and then retry the upgade. > > I did try to install linux-image-2.6.21, but it is complaining about an > initrd-image, which I haven't downloaded. If I try and download one, and > then do a "dpkg -i" on both linux-image and initrd-image, and reboot ... > will it boot? I wouldn't have libc6-2.6 installed (yet), since I would do > that after booting linux-image-2.6.21. Isn't that a Catch-22? There is no initrd package - initrd (or INITial Ram Disks) are constructed on the fly at install time in Debian kernels. If it can't make an initrd, then you won't reboot with a Debian kernel. I really think you may have to build a static monolithic kernel by hand - the initrd tools, now that I think about it, are going to have a tough time just figuring out what modules to include when you're running a 2.4 kernel. Just copy /boot/config-something-recent to .config in the kernel sources, run make oldconfig, and then make config to trim it down and get rid of ram disk expectations. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Stephen Gran | <Knghtbrd> Studies prove that research | | steve@lobefin.net | causes cancer in 43% of laboratory | | http://www.lobefin.net/~steve | rats <CQ> knghtbrd- yeah, but 78% of | | | those statistics are off by 52%... | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Attachment:
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