[Hardy] Re: Help, its messed up.

[Jim Smith]

NoOp wrote:

>On 03/13/2008 01:51 AM, Ari Torhamo wrote:
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>>This problem seems to be widespread, but a solution has already been
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>>https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/glibc/+bug/201673
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>>Ari
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>Thanks for that Ari. Actually, I think the *cause* has been found :-)
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>This worked for me:
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>1. Rebooted from the Hardy CD & chose rescue a broken system.
>2. Went through all of the recovery procedures until I was able to get
>to a root bash prompt (#).
>3. Followed (somewhat modified):
>https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/glibc/+bug/201673
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>* If you are running the 32-bit PC (i386) edition of Ubuntu, type the
>following into the terminal window:
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> wget http://launchpadlibrarian.net/11110565/libc6_2.7-5ubuntu2_i386.deb
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>* My /dev/sda1 was already mounted from the recovery/rescue so:
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># dpkg -i *.deb
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>* dpkg downgraded to libc6_2.7-5ubuntu2 from libc6_2.7-9ubuntu2
>* did a hard reboot & fsck invoked due to unclean mount - ok
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>I now have the ugly bird of paradise on my desktop again :-)
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>So now it shows a crash report, click on that, shows: Sorry, the package
>"linux-image-2.6.24-12-generic 2.6.24-12.22" failed to install or upgrade"
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>That's OK -- it's alpha and that's what running alpha is all about;
>fixing bugs before beta :-)
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>Thanks, everyone, I am now downloading the CD image and printing out the instructions from the linked pages. Hopefully by the time I get this done the fix will be posted and the normal upgrade process will restore sanity. (Or just introduce more fun stuff to chase down.)
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ho....................

Jim