Quote:
Originally Posted by evo2
...You're among the Debian elite!
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Ha! the operative word here is "among". In the 10 years I've been using Debian I never expected to even be among!
In any event, Thanks to evo2 and help from Mr. Hess, I was able to resolve this problem pretty painlessly.
Without a graphical browser and most other graphical apps working I ssh'd to the box (vostro) from my wife's imac.
Code:
wget http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/e/eglibc/libc6_2.11.2-13_amd64.deb
placed the *.deb in /var/cache/apt/archives.
Code:
dpkg --install libc6_2.11.2-13_amd64.deb
complained that locales would break
Long story short, I got the updated locales, got the updated libc-bin, installed libc6 and libc-bin then locales.
Code:
Last login: Tue Apr 26 18:13:29 on ttys000
michele-greenwoods-imac-2:~ michele$ ssh pat@192.168.1.103
pat@192.168.1.103's password:
Linux vostro 2.6.30-2-amd64 #1 SMP Fri Sep 25 22:16:56 UTC 2009 x86_64
The programs included with the Debian GNU/Linux system are free software;
the exact distribution terms for each program are described in the
individual files in /usr/share/doc/*/copyright.
Debian GNU/Linux comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent
permitted by applicable law.
You have new mail.
Last login: Tue Apr 26 18:14:34 2011 from michele-greenwoods-imac-2.local
pat@vostro:~$ su
Password:
vostro:/home/pat# cd /var/cache/apt/archives/vostro:/var/cache/apt/archives# wgetvovvvvvovvvvovvvovvovvovvovvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvovvvvvvovvvvvvovvvvvvvvvvvvvvvostro:/var/cache/apt/archives# wget http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/e/eglibc/locales_2.11.2-13_all.deb
--2011-04-26 21:33:07-- http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/e/eglibc/locales_2.11.2-13_all.deb
Resolving ftp.us.debian.org... 199.6.12.70, 35.9.37.225, 64.50.233.100, ...
Connecting to ftp.us.debian.org|199.6.12.70|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 4756226 (4.5M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: `locales_2.11.2-13_all.deb'
100%[===============================================================================================================>] 4,756,226 127K/s in 58s
2011-04-26 21:34:05 (80.3 KB/s) - `locales_2.11.2-13_all.deb' saved [4756226/4756226]
vostro:/var/cache/apt/archives# dpkg --install locales_2.11.2-13_all.deb
(Reading database ... 188993 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace locales 2.10.1-5 (using locales_2.11.2-13_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement locales ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of locales:
locales depends on glibc-2.11-1; however:
Package glibc-2.11-1 is not installed.
Package libc6 which provides glibc-2.11-1 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing locales (--install):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Processing triggers for man-db ...
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = (unset),
LC_ALL = (unset),
LANG = "en_US.UTF-8"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
/usr/bin/mandb: can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct
Errors were encountered while processing:
locales
vostro:/var/cache/apt/archives# wget http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/e/eglibc/libc-bin_2.11.2-13_amd64.deb
--2011-04-26 21:46:24-- http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/e/eglibc/libc-bin_2.11.2-13_amd64.deb
Resolving ftp.us.debian.org... 64.50.233.100, 64.50.236.52, 128.30.2.36, ...
Connecting to ftp.us.debian.org|64.50.233.100|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 747160 (730K) [application/x-debian-package]
Saving to: `libc-bin_2.11.2-13_amd64.deb'
100%[============================================================================================================================>] 747,160 85.1K/s in 8.6s
2011-04-26 21:46:33 (84.8 KB/s) - `libc-bin_2.11.2-13_amd64.deb' saved [747160/747160]
vostro:/var/cache/apt/archives# dpkg -i libc6_2.11.2-13_amd64.deb libc-bin_2.11.2-13_amd64.deb
(Reading database ... 188997 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace libc6 2.11.2-13 (using libc6_2.11.2-13_amd64.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement libc6 ...
Preparing to replace libc-bin 2.10.1-5 (using libc-bin_2.11.2-13_amd64.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement libc-bin ...
Setting up libc-bin (2.11.2-13) ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/gai.conf ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = (unset),
LC_ALL = (unset),
LANG = "en_US.UTF-8"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
/usr/bin/mandb: can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct
Setting up libc6 (2.11.2-13) ...
then the ncurses dialog came up about restarting services – OK
Code:
Checking for services that may need to be restarted...
Checking init scripts...
Restarting services possibly affected by the upgrade:
gdm: reloading...done.
exim4: restarting...done.
cups: restarting...done.
cron: restarting...done.
apache2: restarting...done.
Services restarted successfully.
vostro:/var/cache/apt/archives# dpkg --install locales_2.11.2-13_all.deb
(Reading database ... 188997 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace locales 2.11.2-13 (using locales_2.11.2-13_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement locales ...
Setting up locales (2.11.2-13) ...
Generating locales (this might take a while)...
en_US.UTF-8... done
Generation complete.
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Synaptic update-monitor complains that 3 packages are broken but everything appears to work as before.
Yay!
