At Sat, 24 Apr 2004 13:34:53 +0200, COLPART Gregory wrote: > Architecture: i386 (i686) > Kernel: Linux 2.6.3foulademer02032004
> When I upgrade libc6 2.3.2.ds1-11 to libc6 2.3.2.ds1-12 I have a > problem: > D000002: fork/exec /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/preinst ( ) > WARNING: Your kernel version indicates a revision number > of 255 or greater. Glibc has a number of built in > assumptions that this revision number is less than 255. > If you've built your own kernel, please make sure that any > custom version numbers are appended to the upstream > kernel number with a dash or some other delimiter. > dpkg : erreur de traitement de > /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.3.2.ds1-12_i386.deb (--install) : > le sous-processus pre-installation script a retournï une erreur de > sortie d'ïtat 1 > > The script preinst contains: > # Test to make sure z < 255, in x.y.z-n form of kernel version > kernel_rev=$(uname -r | awk -F '[.-]' '{print $3}') > if [ "$kernel_rev" -ge 255 ] This preinst file is in -11, not in -12. Are your libc6 really -12? > But if you compiled your kernel with --append-to-version=foo, uname -r > will be x.y.zfoo and kernel_rev will contain foo and installation will fail (exit 1) This problem should be fixed in -12. See #241395. Regards, -- gotom