Sarel Botha wrote: > > > Having updated libc6, I didn't know whether a reboot was in order, since > > that is a fairly important library for just about everything. Well, > > this was a bad idea, since my machine hung rebooting, and then nothing > > would run once the kernel finished starting. Couldn't log in, rescue > > disk doesn't have dpkg, and I was sorta stuck, and sort of frantic > > (moreso, in fact). > > It wasn't necessary to reboot... > > Couldn't imoprtant binaries that could stop a machine from rebooting be > statically linked to avoid problems like this ?
Well, I am not sure about that. Once I installed the new libc6, it didn't seem that dpkg was installing things properly anymore (again, I was installing guile 1.3, so the other stuff installed was libncurses, slib, libguile, and of course, guile itself). I didn't have any experience with this, so I brushed it off as dependency problems of some sort. As for static linking, it would have been nice if the rescue disk could have had dpkg on it so that I could mount my CD and re-install the older libs, but it actually wasn't that bad afterall... definitely a learning experience. -dh