dpkg segmentation fault

[Jonathan Wheelhouse <wheelhouse@pacific.net.au>]

Hi

I get this when running aptitude:

The following packages will be upgraded:
  libc6 locales 
2 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 127 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/8785kB of archives. After unpacking 4694kB will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] 
Writing extended state information... Done
Reading changelogs... Done
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 63087 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace libc6 2.3.2-8 (using .../libc6_2.3.2.ds1-9_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement libc6 ...
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg received a segmentation fault.
Ack!  Something bad happened while installing packages.  Trying to recover:
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of locales:
 locales depends on glibc-2.3.2.ds1-8; however:
  Package glibc-2.3.2.ds1-8 is not installed.
dpkg: error processing locales (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
 locales
Reading Package Lists... Done             
Building Dependency Tree       
Reading extended state information... Done

I read libc6 bug reports which suggest that it has the problem but if
I cannot install the new version what do I do?

Jonathan