Hi, On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 06:47:28PM +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > > Started up a netboot unstable installer by accident and directly after > > Could you point me to the image you used?
Initially I used the Lenny installer from September 2008 (was the one on the disk and worked fine until now). I then changed to the official Debian 5.0 stable installer. Used the netboot image from http://ftp.ch.debian.org/debian/dists/Debian5.0/main/installer-i386/current/images/netboot/netboot.tar.gz But forgot the sync the new image to our second DHCP/TFTP server. And the machine seemed to have always booted from there. So that's why d-i mirror/suite select stable d-i mirror/codename string lenny in the preseeding file got ignored initially (while the normal non-preseeded installation worked anyway) and brought this d-i/libc6 issue to the daylight. > - the installer you used is glibc 2.7 based, and a copy of glibc 2.9 is > extracted over it without any check. As we already found out in IRC, that's what happens. On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 07:55:23PM +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > The problem appears when the image has been built using libc6-udeb > version 2.7 and a libc6-udeb 2.9 is downloaded and unpacked. The new > glibc is not fully usable until other glibc udeb packages, namely > libnss-dns-udeb and libnss-files-udeb are unpacked. > > The segfault is caused here by using libc6 2.9 with a libnss-dns version > 2.7. Thanks for debugging and the explanation! Kind regards, Axel Beckert -- Axel Beckert <beck...@phys.ethz.ch> support: +41 44 633 26 68 IT Services Group, HPT D 17 voice: +41 44 633 41 89 Departement of Physics, ETH Zurich CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org