On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 12:40:29PM +1030, Arthur Marsh wrote: > > Jarno wrote, on 2008-03-02 10:30: >> Arthur Marsh a écrit : >>> Package: libc6 >>> Version: 2.7-9 >>> Severity: normal >>> >>> >>> During an aptitude update I had the following: >>> >>> makayla:/var/cache/apt/archives# aptitude -u >>> Preconfiguring packages ... >>> (Reading database ... 99777 files and directories currently installed.) >>> Preparing to replace libc6-dev 2.7-8 (using >>> .../libc6-dev_2.7-9_i386.deb) ... >>> Unpacking replacement libc6-dev ... >>> Preparing to replace libc6 2.7-8 (using >>> .../archives/libc6_2.7-9_i386.deb) ... >>> Unpacking replacement libc6 ... >>> Setting up libc6 (2.7-9) ... >>> /var/lib/dpkg/info/libc6.postinst: line 393: 3449 Segmentation >>> fault ldconfig >>> >>> I could not get the machine to respond after this and had to do a >>> shut-down and reboot by the power button. >>> >>> After restart, >>> dpkg --configure -a >>> >>> worked fine. >>> >> >> Is that reproducible? Are you sure it is not related to some hardware >> problem? Or to a kernel problem? >> >> There is no change between the two versions that can explain this >> behaviour, and even if ldconfig is really broken, I don't see how it >> could lead to a freeze of the machine. > > Apart from downgrading the machine to testing and then upgrading to > unstable, I'm not sure that I could reproduce it. The only other clues I
Yes that was what I was suggesting. Alternatively if you have a similar machine that hasn't been upgraded yet, you can try to upgrade it. > could offer besides the problem happening on a VIA chipset machine with > an AMD Duron CPU, was that I was performing about a day's worth upgrades > for the machine over a telnetd-ssl session. What about kernel 2.6.25-rc2 which might not be that stable? -- .''`. Aurelien Jarno | GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73 : :' : Debian developer | Electrical Engineer `. `' [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] `- people.debian.org/~aurel32 | www.aurel32.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]