[parisc-linux] LibC errors on C180 install

[Michael Wood]

On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 10:51:41AM -0900, Tom wrote:
> Interesting - C180, 4G FWSCSI.5, Plextor CD SESCSI.5, 0.93
> ISO. On install I had a segfault in the base-config, which
> bombed the rest of the install.  Manually added FTP, pulled
> the latest kernel, reboot and now I can get APT etc to run,
> but every time it tries to update libc6 I get an error -
> "unable to stat './usr/lib/gconv/CP1251.so' (which I was about
> to install): Value too large for defined data type", then
> libc6 fails to install.

Might be fs corruption.  I got a similar error on a corrupted
filesystem:

(Reading database ... 6812 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace libc6 2.2.4-3 (using .../libc6_2.2.4-7_hppa.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement libc6 ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.2.4-7_hppa.deb (--unpack):
 unable to stat `./usr/share/zoneinfo/Australia/Lindeman' (which I was about to install): Input/output error
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.2.4-7_hppa.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

And:

# ls -l /usr/share/zoneinfo/Australia/Lindeman 
ls: /usr/share/zoneinfo/Australia/Lindeman: Input/output error

After forcing an fsck on the relevant filesystem, it worked much
better :)

-- 
Michael Wood <mwood@its.uct.ac.za>