Re: upgrading libc6 from 2.2.5-14.3 to 2.3.1-5 fails on 712

2002-11-26 Thread Carlos O'Donell
> there might be a better way to check for this by using a preinst check. > Carlos, can you take a look at this? I think sparc already a similar > check. I'll take a look at this tonight. Thanks for everyone who is participating in making unstable better. While I try to test various permutations

Re: upgrading libc6 from 2.2.5-14.3 to 2.3.1-5 fails on 712

2002-11-26 Thread Grant Grundler
=?iso-8859-1?Q?Martin-=C9ric_Racine?= wrote: > While anyone indeed can, those who do ought to be shot dead. > Reasonable people use always kernel-package to make their own kernels. :) Excuse me, but as a kernel developer I do that all day, every day. Where do you think kernel packages come from?

Re: upgrading libc6 from 2.2.5-14.3 to 2.3.1-5 fails on 712

2002-11-26 Thread Randolph Chung
> While anyone indeed can, those who do ought to be shot dead. Reasonable people > use always kernel-package to make their own kernels. :) if you do this once in a while, this is ok kernel-package doesn't facilitate doing kernel development though. > Btw, the same libc6 2.3.1 on i386 does no

Re: upgrading libc6 from 2.2.5-14.3 to 2.3.1-5 fails on 712

2002-11-26 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
On Tue, 26 Nov 2002, Randolph Chung wrote: > > Then why doesn't the package itself depend on that kernel? If it did, apt > > would have prevented the upgrade from ever being attempted at all... > > because anyone can compile a kernel themselves and install it, and dpkg > only knows about debian

Re: upgrading libc6 from 2.2.5-14.3 to 2.3.1-5 fails on 712

2002-11-26 Thread Randolph Chung
> Then why doesn't the package itself depend on that kernel? If it did, apt > would have prevented the upgrade from ever being attempted at all... because anyone can compile a kernel themselves and install it, and dpkg only knows about debian packages. there might be a better way to check for th

Re: upgrading libc6 from 2.2.5-14.3 to 2.3.1-5 fails on 712

2002-11-26 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
On Tue, 26 Nov 2002, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 10:41:24AM +0200, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: > > On Tue, 26 Nov 2002, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: > > > Inteesting question. One could install a kernel by hand (not as a > > > package). Thus a runtime test would probably be more suite

Re: upgrading libc6 from 2.2.5-14.3 to 2.3.1-5 fails on 712

2002-11-26 Thread Alexander Gabert
live fast, die young ... yesterday i set up my c200 with debian. headless. no visualize fx2 support :-( anyway, makes up a good server. kernel-image-2.4.9 hpmc's mpg123 *ouch* put debian.org stable into sources.list fetch kernel-image-2.4.18 32bit hppa dist-upgrade, reboot new kernel works fine

Re: upgrading libc6 from 2.2.5-14.3 to 2.3.1-5 fails on 712

2002-11-26 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 10:41:24AM +0200, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: > On Tue, 26 Nov 2002, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: > > Inteesting question. One could install a kernel by hand (not as a > > package). Thus a runtime test would probably be more suited. > > The problem with a runtime test i.e. in the

Re: upgrading libc6 from 2.2.5-14.3 to 2.3.1-5 fails on 712

2002-11-26 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
On Tue, 26 Nov 2002, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: > * Martin-?ric Racine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Then why doesn't the package itself depend on that kernel? If it did, apt > > would have prevented the upgrade from ever being attempted at all... > > Inteesting question. One could install a kernel b

Re: upgrading libc6 from 2.2.5-14.3 to 2.3.1-5 fails on 712

2002-11-26 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
* Martin-?ric Racine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Then why doesn't the package itself depend on that kernel? If it did, apt > would have prevented the upgrade from ever being attempted at all... Inteesting question. One could install a kernel by hand (not as a package). Thus a runtime test would proba

Re: upgrading libc6 from 2.2.5-14.3 to 2.3.1-5 fails on 712

2002-11-26 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, Randolph Chung wrote: > > > Please upgrade to 2.4.19 :) > > > > Forget it. 2.4.19 dies within 5 minutes of uptime, on any architecture I > > have. > > > > Anyhow, your sarcastic answer doesn't explain why even rebooting fails; the > > kernel reports it is too old and that

Re: upgrading libc6 from 2.2.5-14.3 to 2.3.1-5 fails on 712

2002-11-25 Thread Randolph Chung
> > Please upgrade to 2.4.19 :) > > Forget it. 2.4.19 dies within 5 minutes of uptime, on any architecture I > have. > > Anyhow, your sarcastic answer doesn't explain why even rebooting fails; the > kernel reports it is too old and that it tired to kill init. eh? how is this a "sarcastic answe

Re: upgrading libc6 from 2.2.5-14.3 to 2.3.1-5 fails on 712

2002-11-25 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, Carlos O'Donell wrote: > > In the above error, what is that "kernel too old" supposed to mean? I have: > > Linux zarya 2.4.18 #3 ti loka?? 22 01:33:10 EEST 2002 parisc unknown > > unknown GNU/Linux > > Please upgrade to 2.4.19 :) Forget it. 2.4.19 dies within 5 minutes of

Re: upgrading libc6 from 2.2.5-14.3 to 2.3.1-5 fails on 712

2002-11-25 Thread Carlos O'Donell
> In the above error, what is that "kernel too old" supposed to mean? I have: > Linux zarya 2.4.18 #3 ti loka?? 22 01:33:10 EEST 2002 parisc unknown unknown > GNU/Linux Please upgrade to 2.4.19 :) c.

upgrading libc6 from 2.2.5-14.3 to 2.3.1-5 fails on 712

2002-11-25 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
Some package I installed required an upgrade of libc6, which resulted in the following error message, during installation: * Preparing to replace libc6 2.2.5-14.3 (using .../libc6_2.3.1-5_hppa.deb) ... Unpacking replacement libc6 ... FATAL: kernel too old dpkg: warning - old post-removal scrip