System died after upgrade

[Adam Lohr]

While running an upgrade tonight I noticed several packages failed to install, and memory dumps were in the terminal output. Trying to diagnose the problem further, I found that sudo, and bash both segfaulted immediately. My screensaver also came on after a time and would not unlock (my screensaver has been coming on despite active use for some time now, I've filed a seperate bug report about it). I restarted the X server with ctrl-alt-backspace and GDM refused to load as well. At this point I rebooted the system with ctrl-alt-dell, but it would not load; I don't have the exact error message at the moment. I'm writing this from inside Damn Small Linux on the same hardware, so it doesn't seem to be a hardware problem.

[Fritz Heinrichmeyer (fritz-heinrichmeyer)]

same at home after playing with hardy on a x86 32 bit box at home:

bash fails.

I will have to repair the system with a live cd.

I will stop updating hardy for now.

[Juha Tiensyrjä (juha-tiensyrja)]

Confirming. Seems to have something to do with libc6 upgrade.

[The Punisher (melprinsi)]

Same here. Before update no debs were signed BROKEN. After upgrade update libc6-i686 was corrupted.
Now my system is unusable.

[Ulf Andersson (uanderss)]

I can confirm. I just did an upgrade and it segfaults when to upgrade and sudo core dumps. The system after upgrade is corrupt and when I rebooted I can not log in because of segfault in the login.
I can not use Ctrl+Alt+F1 and login - segfault directly before I even type my password.
If I boot with recovery and drop to root - it just hangs... and freezes.

So, I'm locked out :-)
My system config is Dell C521 AMD64 with Intel video.

[Juha Tiensyrjä (juha-tiensyrja)]

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/glibc/+bug/201673/

This is a duplicate of the above bug. There are some suggestions on how to repair the problem. Please comment on that report instead of this one.