Re: Missing GLIBC2.2 on potato install

[Noah Meyerhans]

On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 11:03:01PM +, Dougie Nisbet wrote:
> 
> Most things I try say that the GLIBC 2.2 package library or whatever is not 
> installed. I try various permitations of apt-cache search and apt-get install 
> and reinstall and fix to try get things working again, but most things, such 
> as perl, need glibc2.2. I don't know where things went wrong, but presumably 
> I messed up somewhere, and don't know where I did it.

Nothing in potato should need glibc 2.2.  Potato uses glibc 2.1.  How
did you manage to get woody/sid packages installed on your potato
system?

> Question 1: Is the system salvagable? I suspect not. Is it possible to 
> install the GLIBC_2.2 (I can't recall the exact error) - or is it needed by 
> everything, including the install routines?

They're always salvagable, it's just not always worth the effort.  In
this case, it should be pretty easy to salvage since you've got another
working OS on the system.  Boot to your other OS and copy glibc 2.2 over
to the potato system.

> Question 2: Assuming I'm looking at a clean rebuild, is there anything I can 
> salvage from the current install that will save me another long download. I'm 

Assuming you've got /home on a separate partition, copy everything there
while you re-install.  The .debs from /var/cache/apt/archives is fine to
copy over.  Apt on the new system will be smart enough to see them and
not download them again.  But of course, you don't necessarily have to
re-install.

noah

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Missing GLIBC2.2 on potato install

[Dougie Nisbet]

I've installed potato a few times on this particular PC, and for various 
reasons, I wanted to do a clean re-install. I repartitioned and off we went. 
Everything went smoothly and I soon had a working system. 

I wanted to access reiser filesystems (version 2) created by another linux 
distro, so I added the Adrian Bunk lines to my /etc/apt/sources.list, and 
downloaded the kernel packages and 2.4.14 sources. I recompiled the kernel 
with reiser support, rebooted, and all was well. 

So far so good. I've done this process a few times with no problems.

Then I decided to try postfix for a change, and did an apt-get install 
postfix, and allowed it to do its stuff. I read the postfix config file, 
hacked it with a bit of trial and error, and managed to get things working. I 
was pleasantly surprised.

I made a few other hacks around the system, all of which I've done on 
previous occasions.  I restored my woody partition which I'd zapped because 
of the repartiotioning, modified my lilo, and rebooted to check that I could 
still get into woody. Yes. Fine.

Rebooted to get back to potato - and now big problems.

Most things I try say that the GLIBC 2.2 package library or whatever is not 
installed. I try various permitations of apt-cache search and apt-get install 
and reinstall and fix to try get things working again, but most things, such 
as perl, need glibc2.2. I don't know where things went wrong, but presumably 
I messed up somewhere, and don't know where I did it.

Question 1: Is the system salvagable? I suspect not. Is it possible to 
install the GLIBC_2.2 (I can't recall the exact error) - or is it needed by 
everything, including the install routines?

Question 2: Assuming I'm looking at a clean rebuild, is there anything I can 
salvage from the current install that will save me another long download. I'm 
thinking mostly of the 2.2.14 Bunk kernel and docs. They took a long time to 
download, and if I can copy them out of the way until I've reinstalled, then 
copy them back, that would save me a lot of time. I can see them in 
/var/cache/apt/archives - is it just a question of backing that directory up 
then restoring, or is there more involved?

Thanks,

Dougie