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Re: what to do when libc6 upgrade goes bad



> 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 ?

Regards

--
Sarel Botha


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