Hello,
Thanks for the image, but I can't download it. I get a 403 error.
Yep sorry for not told you, I had deleted the image since the results I got were totally weird.
The bug was fixed somehow or not at all. Yesterday some package asked the libc6 2.11.1-3 to be installed in order to get them upgraded, I risked the upgrade and it did work. The package hadn't changed then it must be related to something else.
Does it mean the crash then only happens on reboot?
Not at all.I have been a little bit fast on my last post by saying that once linux-image-2.6-686 was up to date, the upgrade of libc6 crashed. It's actually weirder (or I didn't do the right thing). This is how I tried to get the "bad" packages which make crash : hold a huge list of packets but some ones, then run a dist-upgrade, un-hold all of them and then upgrade libc6 (each time I reverted the VM to the previous state). In fact doing it that way made the upgrade crash each time. I noticed this when I tried to do a dichotomic search on the package list and I saw that once "wget whois" upgraded, libc6 upgrade crashed anyhow, which made no sense.
I tried then to upgrade (apt-get install) only whois and wget, and then libc6, which perfectly worked. Then I aborted searching the problem.
I have there only my laptop, on which I have done all of this. I hope I can do all of these tests on another computer, but since you said you couldn't reproduce that bug, I'm beginning to think that it may be a memory corruption on my laptop. In this case I present all my apologies.