libc6 2.17-96 critical bug (not reproducible)

[pidsley]

Has anyone else seen this? It's only on my 64-bit box so far. I postponed an upgrade a few days ago because of some other bugs, so I'm putting this on hold for now so I can do the rest of the upgrade.

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critical bugs of libc6 (2.17-93 → 2.17-96) <Outstanding>
 #730336 - normal booting fails with floating point exception

(edit) No one has responded to the opened bug yet, so it might be nothing. My upgrade (with this package held) was successful.

[xaos52]

Hmm, I have that version installed without problems.

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xterm-256color:$ apt-cache policy libc6
libc6:
  Installed: 2.17-96
  Candidate: 2.17-96
  Version table:
 *** 2.17-96 0
        500 http://http.debian.net/debian/ sid/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

I am on 64-bit too.

I installed it on

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Start-Date: 2013-11-21  15:17:34

while upgrading a jessy system to sid.

[ivanovnegro]

Interesting. And I already have the newer package installed but did not reboot yet. What is a floating point exception?

[xaos52]

^ Generally caused by a divide by zero.

[DebianJoe]

Just put RSI back on laptop, full update/upgrade...no issues on 32-bit from what I can see.

[dkeg]

no issues here either, also on that version, although I am 32 bit.

[ivanovnegro]

Rebooted this morning on 32 bit, no issues.

[GekkoP]

Same here on Elektra.

[pidsley]

I took the package off hold and upgraded, then rebooted successfully. The bug is still open, but no one seems to be responding to it. I'm closing this topic.

[machinebacon]

Thanks Pids, no problems here either on 32 bit.