Bug#451939: libc6: Upgrading x86 chroot on ia64 dies with "cannot set up thread-local storage"

[Ian Wienand <ianw@gelato.unsw.edu.au>]

Package: libc6
Version: 2.3.6.ds1-13
Severity: normal

Hi,

I am trying to upgrade libc in a x86-32 chroot on my IA64 (Itanium) 
machine.

It dies with the following

Setting up libc6 (2.6.1-6) ...
cannot set up thread-local storage: set_thread_area failed when setting 
up thread-local storage

dpkg: error processing libc6 (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 127
Errors were encountered while processing:
 libc6
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

The underlying kernel is 2.6.22-3-mckinley.  It was previously running
2.3.2.dl1-19.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

-i

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (900, 'stable'), (700, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18.2-paulaner-1
Locale: LANG=en_AU, LC_CTYPE=en_AU (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages libc6 depends on:
ii  tzdata                        2007b-1    Time Zone and Daylight Saving Time

libc6 recommends no packages.

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