Comment 6 for bug 20313

Goto,

I was upgrading from woody to sarge when apt-get choked on upgrading
libc6 from 2.2.5-11.8 to 2.3.2.ds1-22 with a message along the lines of
'can't seek in file xxxxxx'. dmesg would report 'Bad number of
arguments for llseek()' (paraphrasing) every so often. It was
impossible to reserve the package install.

On 24-Aug-05, at 4:39 AM, GOTO Masanori wrote:

> Did you try to upgrade from woody to sarge? Or from sarge to the
> current sid? Please imagine 2.3.2.ds1-22 is broken - many arm users
> cannot use their machine.

The machine is 3,000 km away from me in a sub-basement. It's dead. It's
nail-the-dead-parrot-to-it's-perch dead.

>> Linux jill 2.2.19 #1 Tue Dec 25 13:58:22 GMT 2001 armv4l unknown
>
> This kernel is not the standard debian supported kernel - it seems a
> bit old. Can you try newer kernel with glibc 2.3.2.ds1-22?

2.2.19 is the last kernel that I've run without problems; the machine
had an uptime of 221 days when I tried to upgrade.
Getting someone to access the machine is non-trivial and is going to
require shipping the computer.
I won't be able to try anything for a few weeks until I get access to
the machine.

>
>> llseek bad argument is the most common error message.
>
> Could you show us some examples of your messages?
>
> Regards,
> -- gotom

best,
rhw