
Running aptitude full-upgrade or apt-get dist-upgrade gets me to this point and freezes for about 12 hours by which time I assume nothing is happening and kill the process. Before killing it I check with top and the load is virtually nothing. I get an ncurses windown saying Configuring libc6 Kernel version not supported need to be restarted.... This version of the GNU libc requires kernel version 3.2 or later. Older versions might work but are not officially supported. Please consider upgrading your kernel. Ok Click on OK as part of the upgrade is to bring in a newer kernel anyway and I get. Checking for services that may need to be restarted.. Checking init scripts... there it hangs presumably forever at least for 12 hours.. Just now it threw the following error [6477417.633822] systemd-logind[8642]: Failed to enable subscription: Launch helper exited with unknown return code 1 [6477417.633822] systemd-logind[8642]: Failed to fully start up daemon: Input/output error Partway through this upgrade I lost the ability to click anything with the mouse, can still run it around the screen and it wakes up the screen saver but can't click anything. I can connect to the box just fine with ssh. All suggestions welcome.

[6477417.633822] systemd-logind[8642]: Failed to fully start up daemon: Input/output error
Partway through this upgrade I lost the ability to click anything with the mouse, can still run it around the screen and it wakes up the screen saver but can't click > anything.
Have you checked out the obvious things like that you might have a failed disk? 'dmesg' or /var/log/kern.log should show some errors if this is the case. Also use smartctl to check the health of the disk and run a self test. James

On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 08:47:11PM +0000, stripes theotoky wrote:
Configuring libc6 Kernel version not supported need to be restarted.... This version of the GNU libc requires kernel version 3.2 or later. Older versions might work but are not officially supported. Please consider upgrading your kernel.
Ok
Click on OK as part of the upgrade is to bring in a newer kernel anyway and [... problems ... ]
I would suggest manually installing a 3.2 or later kernel (with 'apt-get install linux-image-xxxxxx') and rebooting **before** upgrading libc6 or anything else. if the updated libc6 has a hard requirement on kernel >= 3.2 then upgrading libc6 before rebooting to the new kernel is bound to lead to problems...quite possibly very significant and difficult-to-fix problems as pretty much everything (including apt and dpkg and bash/dash and coreutils and more) depend on libc6. craig -- craig sanders <cas@taz.net.au>
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