Bug#468560: segfault on upgrade of libc6

[Arthur Marsh <arthur.marsh@internode.on.net>]

Package: libc6
Version: 2.7-9
Severity: normal


During an aptitude update I had the following:

makayla:/var/cache/apt/archives# aptitude -u
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 99777 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace libc6-dev 2.7-8 (using 
.../libc6-dev_2.7-9_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement libc6-dev ...
Preparing to replace libc6 2.7-8 (using 
.../archives/libc6_2.7-9_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement libc6 ...
Setting up libc6 (2.7-9) ...
/var/lib/dpkg/info/libc6.postinst: line 393:  3449 Segmentation fault      
ldconfig

I could not get the machine to respond after this and had to do a 
shut-down and reboot by the power button.

After restart, 

dpkg --configure -a

worked fine.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-rc2 (SMP w/1 CPU core; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages libc6 depends on:
ii  libgcc1                 1:4.3-20080227-1 GCC support library

libc6 recommends no packages.

-- debconf information:
  glibc/upgrade: true
  glibc/restart-failed:
  glibc/restart-services: