Trashed Hardy on update

[Nigel Ridley]

D. Michael McIntyre wrote:
> On Thursday 13 March 2008, Steve Cook wrote:
>>> Any hope of an easy solution - or is it a reinstall....?
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/glibc/+bug/201673
> 
> To summarize that, since Nigel has already rebooted, he might be able to 
> rescue it from a live CD, if he's feeling adventuresome today.
> 
> It looks kind of dicey to me.  I could probably do it, but I'm not sure if I'd 
> bother.  I used to be the kind of guy who would go to any length to avoid 
> copping out and resinstalling, but then I discovered it's often a lot faster 
> to cop out, and the end result is the same.

Wrong... It was actually very easy - the guy just made a little mistake 
in using the -x option instead of the -i option to actually install the 
downloaded earlier version of lib6c

My system is up and running - and updated :-)

Blessings,

Nigel

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