Upgrade from Dapper to Edgy Eft beta fails

[dorakyura]

Tried the upgrade by

gksu "update-manager -c -d"

which after downloading returned:

Could not install '/var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.4-1ubuntu10_i386.deb'

The upgrade aborts now. Please report this bug against the 'update-manager' package and include the files in /var/log/dist-upgrade/ in the bugreport.

subprocess new post-removal script returned error exit status 127

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Thanks for your bugreport.

The postrm script of libc6 failed during the upgrade.

Do you have something in /var/log/dist-upgrade/term.log?

Thanks,
 Michael

[dorakyura (tobias-kreisel)]

Hi Michael,

after upgrading failed I did a reinstall of dapper so I am not able to
provide you with any more files right now. However, when the error
occurred I was provided with a file term.log (just as apt.log and the
other one) which was empty---therefore I did not append it to the bug
report.

Hope that helps a bit!
Tobias

Michael Vogt wrote:
> Thanks for your bugreport.
>
> The postrm script of libc6 failed during the upgrade.
>
> Do you have something in /var/log/dist-upgrade/term.log?
>
> Thanks,
> Michael
>
> ** Changed in: update-manager (Ubuntu)
> Sourcepackagename: update-manager => glibc
>
> ** Changed in: glibc (Ubuntu)
> Status: Unconfirmed => Needs Info
>
>

[Adrian Jadic (jadic)]

I had similar issues. I have tried to upgrade with adept by changing the dapper repositories to edgy and after I got some errors (the ones that .... failed because the commit would break packages). When trying to boot I get instead of the splash screen a string saying something about ACPI checking the acpiid ...etc. and the cursor blinks and nothing happens anymore.

This was on a 64bit installation that I have on my machine. I have not deleted it so if you need any logs I can produce them. I have another 32bit Dapper installation for productivity that works. For now I am sending my sources.list

[KOCMOHABT (kocmo)]

Ran into the same problem as the first reporter, filed a [duplicate] bug entry 75855. I believe the problem is the same as Debian bug 397020 (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=397020).

[Erik Postma (e-j-postma+launchpad)]

Confirm Vlads opinion; running 2.6.18.1 with exec-shield I get the same problem. Turning exec-shield off temporarily makes the problem go away. (Note that the debian patch is for an older version of glibc: 2.3.6 instead of the ubuntu version 2.4.)

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

fixed in glibc (2.5-0ubuntu12)