[Virtual-pkg-base-maintainers] Bug#409018: base: /etc/ld.so.nohwcap missing

[Armando Romero]

Package: base
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks unrelated software

I was helping my friend update to Etch, but many of software did not
work. strace found that /etc/ld.so.nohwcap was missing. dpkg -S cannot
find this file. kaffeine and xine did not work, plugins did not work.
gnome-panel is complaining that file is missing.

What is this file and how is it generated?

Something shall be changed in the Etch upgrade that file gets correctly
upgraded if missing.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)