dpkg crashes

[Bunny H. Brown]

Binary package hint: dpkg

Since upgrading from fiesty to gutsy rc whenever I try do to do an upgrade I get the following
 quote
E: dpkg was interrupted you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem
E: _cache -> open() failed, please report
W: Not using locking for read only file /var/lib/dpkg/lock
unquote

when I run dpkg --configure -a I see text saying processing trigger for libc6 then "bus crash" and the system is unusable because the hard disk is unavailable, the only way to recover the harddisk is to reboot.

But if I try to run dpkg I get the message "bus crash" and again the harddisk is unavailable

The only way I have found to run "dpkg --configure -a" as requested is to boot using my old 2.6.20-16 kernel using this kernel the dpkg command completes successfully and I am then able to reboot into the gutsy 2.6.22 kernel

[Bunny H. Brown (bunny-brown)]

As I couldn't work out what had failed in the upgrade, I carried out a clean re-installation which fixed the problem

[Kees Cook (kees)]

Thanks for your report. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but this bug has already been reported. Please review the information and solution in bug 124373. We are marking this bug as a duplicate.