Bug#722217: libc6: Update fails halfway with segfault
Package: libc6
Version: 2.17-92+b1
Severity: important
Dear Maintainer,
I was updating my Sid / experimental system through synaptic. Selected update all. After some of the libc6 multiarch packages were updated the installation of the rest of libc6 packages failed due to a segfault on installation of another libc6 dependant package.
Here is the term.log from apt.
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Preparing to replace libc6-dev-x32 2.17-92 (using .../libc6-dev-x32_2.17-92+b1_amd64.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement libc6-dev-x32 ...
Preparing to replace libc6-x32 2.17-92 (using .../libc6-x32_2.17-92+b1_amd64.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement libc6-x32 ...
Preparing to replace libc6-dev-i386 2.17-92 (using .../libc6-dev-i386_2.17-92+b1_amd64.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement libc6-dev-i386 ...
Preparing to replace libc6-i386 2.17-92 (using .../libc6-i386_2.17-92+b1_amd64.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement libc6-i386 ...
Replaced by files in installed package libc6:i386 ...
Preparing to replace libc6-dev:i386 2.17-92 (using .../libc6-dev_2.17-92+b1_i386.deb) ...
De-configuring libc6-dev:amd64 ...
Unpacking replacement libc6:amd64 ...
Preparing to replace libc6:i386 2.17-92 (using .../libc6_2.17-92+b1_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.17-92+b1_i386.deb (--unpack):
subprocess new pre-installation script was killed by signal (Segmentation fault)
Preparing to replace libgcc1:amd64 1:4.8.1-9 (using .../libgcc1_1%3a4.8.1-10_amd64.deb) ...
De-configuring libgcc1:i386 ...
Unpacking replacement libgcc1:amd64 ...
Preparing to replace libgcc1:i386 1:4.8.1-9 (using .../libgcc1_1%3a4.8.1-10_i386.deb) ...
....
I restored the system by manually installing libc6 2.17-92 packages from /var/cache/apt/arhives/
-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.10-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
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