[ intrepid ] reinstalling libc6 /var/lib/dpkg/info/libc6.postinst segfault error

[marcobra (Marco Braida)]

Binary package hint: libc6

Description: Ubuntu intrepid (development branch)
Release: 8.10

Fully upgraded/updated 27 September 2008

How to reproduce open a Terminal and type:

sudo apt-get install --reinstall libc6

purging ( sudo apt-get install --purge --reinstall libc6 ) don't solve:

I always get this error:

sudo apt-get install --reinstall libc6
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/4365kB of archives.
After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 266781 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace libc6 2.8~20080505-0ubuntu6 (using .../libc6_2.8~20080505-0ubuntu6_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement libc6 ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up libc6 (2.8~20080505-0ubuntu6) ...
/var/lib/dpkg/info/libc6.postinst: line 376: 7305 Segmentation fault init u

Processing triggers for libc6 ...
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place

Thank you

[Fabrice Coutadeur (fabricesp)]

Hi,

Actual version of this package is libc6-dev 2.8~20080505-0ubuntu7 (you're installing ubuntu6), and I've just been able to reinstall this package. Can you retry the reinstall?

Here is my log:
(intrepid)fabrice@fabrice-desktop:~/build/MOTU$ sudo apt-get install --reinstall libc6
[sudo] password for fabrice:
Leyendo lista de paquetes... Hecho
Creando árbol de dependencias
Leyendo la información de estado... Hecho
Se instalarán los siguientes paquetes extras:
  libc6-dev
Paquetes sugeridos:
  glibc-doc libc6-i686 manpages-dev
Se actualizarán los siguientes paquetes:
  libc6 libc6-dev
2 actualizados, 0 se instalarán, 0 para eliminar y 91 no actualizados.
Necesito descargar 7770kB de archivos.
Se liberarán 4096B después de desempaquetar.
¿Desea continuar [S/n]? s
Des:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main libc6-dev 2.8~20080505-0ubuntu7 [3406kB]
Des:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main libc6 2.8~20080505-0ubuntu7 [4365kB]
Descargados 7770kB en 23s (328kB/s)
Preconfigurando paquetes ...
(Leyendo la base de datos ...
107182 ficheros y directorios instalados actualmente.)
Preparando para reemplazar libc6-dev 2.8~20080505-0ubuntu6 (usando .../libc6-dev_2.8~20080505-0ubuntu7_i386.deb) ...
Desempaquetando el reemplazo de libc6-dev ...
Preparando para reemplazar libc6 2.8~20080505-0ubuntu6 (usando .../libc6_2.8~20080505-0ubuntu7_i386.deb) ...
Desempaquetando el reemplazo de libc6 ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Configurando libc6 (2.8~20080505-0ubuntu7) ...

Configurando libc6-dev (2.8~20080505-0ubuntu7) ...
Processing triggers for libc6 ...
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and help to improve Ubuntu.

This was bug # 273761 in upstart, which has been fixed. Marking as a duplicate.