Bug#740158: [libc6] Libc6, related packages smoked again

[David Baron <d_baron@012.net.il>]

On Wednesday, 26 February, 2014 14:59:44 Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 03:00:23PM +0200, David Baron wrote:
> > Package: libc6
> > Version: 2.18-3
> > Severity: normal
> > 
> > --- Please enter the report below this line. ---
> > Get error on upgrade, whether or not one chooses to stop services and
> > proceed. In synaptic, says need to stop kdm. Did that, still got the
> > error
> > 
> > Thankfully, 2.18-3 where it did get installed is OK and not breaking
> > because of what remains 2.17.
> 
> Please describe the error you got (like copy and paste of the error
> message), without that it won't be possible to fix it.

Preparing to unpack .../libc6_2.18-3_amd64.deb ...
Checking for services that may need to be restarted...
Checking init scripts...
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.18-3_amd64.deb 
(--unpack):
 subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.18-3_amd64.deb
[ Rootkit Hunter version 1.4.0 ]
                                File updated: searched for 170 files, found 146
                                                                               E: 
Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)