Bug#559733: Conf libc-bin broken Breaks:libc6

[oz <oz@bluemonk.de>]

Thanks Aurelien,

the problem indeed is just the simulate run, the real apt-get install 
succeeds:

 # apt-get install libc-bin 

Reading package lists... Done 

Building dependency tree 

Reading state information... Done 

The following extra packages will be installed: 

  libc-dev-bin libc6 libc6-dev libc6-i686 locales 

Suggested packages: 

  glibc-doc 

Recommended packages: 

  manpages-dev 

The following packages will be upgraded: 

  libc-bin libc-dev-bin libc6 libc6-dev libc6-i686 locales 

6 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 369 not upgraded. 

Need to get 14.7MB/15.4MB of archives. 

After this operation, 69.6kB disk space will be freed. 

Do you want to continue [Y/n]? 

Get:1 http://ftp.de.debian.org squeeze/main libc6 2.10.2-2 [3,837kB] 

Get:2 http://ftp.de.debian.org squeeze/main libc6-i686 2.10.2-2 
[1,182kB]
Get:3 http://ftp.de.debian.org squeeze/main libc6-dev 2.10.2-2 [4,732kB] 

Get:4 http://ftp.de.debian.org squeeze/main libc-dev-bin 2.10.2-2 
[194kB]
Get:5 http://ftp.de.debian.org squeeze/main locales 2.10.2-2 [4,753kB] 

Fetched 14.4MB in 32s (443kB/s) 

Preconfiguring packages ... 

locales failed to preconfigure, with exit status 1 

dpkg: considering deconfiguration of libc6, which would be broken by 
installation of libc-bin ...
dpkg: yes, will deconfigure libc6 (broken by libc-bin). 

(Reading database ... 95380 files and directories currently installed.) 

Preparing to replace libc-bin 2.9-25 (using 
.../libc-bin_2.10.2-2_i386.deb) ...
De-configuring libc6 ... 

Unpacking replacement libc-bin ... 

Processing triggers for man-db ... 

Setting up libc-bin (2.10.2-2) ... 

(Reading database ... 95380 files and directories currently installed.) 

Preparing to replace libc6 2.9-25 (using .../libc6_2.10.2-2_i386.deb) 
...
Checking for services that may need to be restarted... 

Checking init scripts... 

Unpacking replacement libc6 ... 

Setting up libc6 (2.10.2-2) ... 

Checking for services that may need to be restarted... 

Checking init scripts... 


Restarting services possibly affected by the upgrade:
  ssh: stopping...starting...done.
  cron: stopping...starting...done.

Services restarted successfully.
(Reading database ... 95379 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace libc6-i686 2.9-25 (using 
.../libc6-i686_2.10.2-2_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement libc6-i686 ...
Preparing to replace libc6-dev 2.9-25 (using 
.../libc6-dev_2.10.2-2_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement libc6-dev ...
Preparing to replace libc-dev-bin 2.9-25 (using 
.../libc-dev-bin_2.10.2-2_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement libc-dev-bin ...
Preparing to replace locales 2.9-25 (using .../locales_2.10.2-2_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement locales ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up libc6-i686 (2.10.2-2) ...
Setting up libc-dev-bin (2.10.2-2) ...
Setting up libc6-dev (2.10.2-2) ...
Setting up locales (2.10.2-2) ...
Generating locales (this might take a while)...
  en_US.UTF-8... done
Generation complete.

- oz

Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> reassign 559733 apt
> thanks
[...]
> Given that 'apt-get install -s' fails, but 'apt-get install' succeeds,
> it's most probably an apt-get bug. Reassigning.