Bug#441975: cannot upgrade libc6 (segfault)
I can confirm this behaviour, except I do not (never had) libc6-i686
installed. System: Unstable, Linux 2.6.22-2-k7
# dpkg -l libc6*
(...)
iF libc6 2.6.1-5
rc libc6-dev 2.6.1-5
un libc6-dev-amd64 <none>
un libc6-i686 <none>
un libc6.1 <none>
un libc6.1-dev <none>
# apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
(...)
The following extra packages will be installed:
libc6-dev libgphoto2-2 libgphoto2-2-dev
Suggested packages:
glibc-doc manpages-dev gphoto2 gtkam
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libc6-dev
The following packages will be upgraded:
libgphoto2-2 libgphoto2-2-dev
2 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 189 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/9164kB of archives.
After unpacking 15,4MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
Reading package fields... Done
Reading package status... Done
Retrieving bug reports... Done
Parsing Found/Fixed information... Done
/bin/sh: line 1: 13982 Segmentation
fault /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt
Setting up libc6 (2.6.1-5) ...
dpkg: error processing libc6 (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script killed by signal (Segmentation fault)
Errors were encountered while processing:
libc6
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Hope that helps.
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