Debian Stable: Can't update kernel, libc won't update.

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Published on 2011-06-29T21:21:14Z Indexed on 2011/06/30 0:23 UTC
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I use Debian Stable (squeeze) on a virtual host where I can't touch the kernel, it's stuck (and will be for some time as support told me) at

Linux 2.6.18-028stab070.3 #1 SMP Wed Jul 21 18:33:27 MSD 2010 x86_64

So when I try to update, several packages fail with FATAL: kernel too old for example

Preparing to replace libgcc1 1:4.6.0-11 (using .../libgcc1_1%3a4.6.1-1_amd64.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement libgcc1 ...
Setting up libgcc1 (1:4.6.1-1) ...
FATAL: kernel too old
Segmentation fault
dpkg: error processing libgcc1 (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 139

and some version chaos ensued:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 libc-dev-bin : Depends: libc6 (> 2.13) but 2.11.2-13 is installed
 libc6 : Depends: libc-bin (= 2.11.2-13) but 2.13-5 is installed
 libc6-dev : Depends: libc6 (= 2.13-5) but 2.11.2-13 is installed
 libquadmath0 : Depends: gcc-4.6-base (= 4.6.0-2) but 4.6.0-11 is installed
 libstdc++6 : Depends: gcc-4.6-base (= 4.6.0-2) but 4.6.0-11 is installed
 locales : Depends: glibc-2.13-1

What should I do? I want to keep the system up-to-date, so I want to pin as few packets as possible, but I also don't want to have to compile anything manually.


Trying to pin the status quo and figured out where the error came from: ldconfig segfaults. -v doesn't print anything more so I can't tell what's the actual problem.

# ldconfig
FATAL: kernel too old

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