When They Say It’s Unstable, They Mean It’s Unstable
by Jiang Yio on Mar.13, 2008, under Computing
I just broke my Ubuntu Hardy setup so badly it’s not even funny.
I did a system update a couple of hours ago, and that happened to upgrade libc6. Those of us who know what libc is know that it’s pretty central to the system’s operation. Now, the new version also happened to be broken. So… no new programs would start and things started throwing random segfaults. I figured I’d reboot the system… and the system refused to boot. 30 minutes later, I had a fresh installation and I was back in action. I pinned libc6 to the older version, just to make sure I would not accidentally upgrade it again.
Guess what? I have not learned my lesson yet. Unstable software is just so much fun to use…
2 comments for this entry:
March 23rd, 2008 on 6:56 pm
Unstable software really is so fun to use. But i (somehow) manage to stop myself from using unstable software outside usermode (and my sandbox).
March 25th, 2008 on 4:25 pm
heh, that sort of broke down for me this time. i used to go unstable only in vm’s…