reopen 278729 thanks The bug was fixed in *-686 kernels, but not in *-amd64 ones: $ apt-cache show linux-image-2.6.30-1-686 | grep ^Recommends: Recommends: libc6-i686 $ apt-cache show linux-image-2.6.30-1-amd64 | grep ^Recommends: $ Please add the above dependency to the *-amd64 kernels, as well.