hi, has anyone encountered relocation errors from tar while installing debian sarge? if you have is there some simple way around this?

-gabin

here's the relevant portion from /var/log/messages

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tar: relocation error: /lib/libpthread.so.0: symbol __libc_stack_end, version GLIBC_PRIVATE not defined in file ld-linux.so.2 with link time reference dpkg-deb: subprocess tar returned error exit status 127 dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/base-files_3.1_i386.deb (--install): subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2 tar: relocation error: /lib/libpthread.so.0: symbol __libc_stack_end, version GLIBC_PRIVATE not defined in file ld-linux.so.2 with link time reference dpkg-deb: subprocess tar returned error exit status 127 dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/base-passwd_3.5.7_i386.deb (--install): subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2 Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/base-files_3.1_i386.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/base-passwd_3.5.7_i386.deb

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