On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 03:03:51AM +0000, peter green wrote: > This would seem to indicate that libc6-i686 was previously installed and > being updated normally but at some point during or after the update to > 2.6.1-1 it's entry in the dpkg status file completely dissapeared. Perhaps leaving /var/lib/dpkg/info/libc6-i686.* files behind?