Trashed Hardy on update

[Jared Greenwald]

Also, just noticed that this has been fixed and new package is in the
mirrors as libc6-2.7-9ubuntu2.  So, if you got bitten by this and
haven't rebooted yet, you should be able to apply this and be fine.

-Jared

On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 11:19 AM, Jared Greenwald
<greenwaldjared at gmail.com> wrote:
> This is in the topic of the #ubuntu+1 channel on freenode:
>  http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=722886
>
>
>
>  On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 10:50 AM, Francisco Borges
>  <francisco.borges at gmail.com> wrote:
>  > Hello Nigel,
>  >
>  >
>  >  On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 3:26 PM, Nigel Ridley <nigel at rmk.co.il> wrote:
>  >
>  >  >  Now I can't boot normally and even in recovery mode, regardless of which
>  >  >  kernel I choose, I get to:
>  >  >  Check root= bootarg cat /proc.cmdline
>  >  >  or missing modules, devices: cat /proc/modules ls /dev
>  >  >  ALERT! /dev/disk/by-uuid/long_string_of_alphanumeric_stuff does not
>  >  >  exist. Dropping to a shell!
>  >  >  BusyBox v1.1.3 9Debian 1:1.1.3-5ubuntu12) Built-in shell (ash)
>  >  >  Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.
>  >
>  >  That sounds like.... hum... loads of fun!!
>  >
>  >  Think in a positive way Nigel!! You're in for a lot of fun!
>  >
>  >  [...]
>  >
>  >  My **guess** is that you'll probably need to 'rescue" your system.
>  >
>  >  Rescuing something with a broken libc will IIRC
>  >  - involve booting a Live CD,
>  >  - setting up a bootstraped environment (I really don't remember the
>  >  command for it).
>  >
>  >  then you'll either download whichever packages you'll need to
>  >  reinstall, or get network on the bootstraped system.
>  >
>  >  and then reinstall/upgrade whatever is broken
>  >
>  >  If you google for "Linux rescue" you may find more information on how
>  >  to do it....
>  >
>  >  Once you have done it. You can be proud of yourself, and get to treat
>  >  your self with ice-cream. At least that is what I did every time I had
>  >  to rescue a system.
>  >
>  >  [...]
>  >
>  >  I don't know if that consoles you, but I may be on the same boat ;-)
>  >  upgraded in the morning, saw the broken libc, but I had to go to work.
>  >  So I hibernated.
>  >
>  >  Cheers,
>  >  --
>  >  Francisco
>  >
>  >
>  >
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