update-manager/apt-get/aptitude dies with relocation error

[Edward Fjellskål]

Upgrading from Dapper to Hardy failed :(

It downloaded all the packages, started updateing... and died:

edward@workstation:~$ sudo update-manager -c -d
sudo: relocation error: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/tls/libc.so.6: symbol _dl_out_of_memory, version GLIBC_PRIVATE not defined in file ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 with link time reference

Trying to paste things from the aptitudelogs :

edward@view:~$ cat /var/log/aptitude
cat: relocation error: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/tls/libc.so.6: symbol _dl_out_of_memory, version GLIBC_PRIVATE not defined in file ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 with link time reference

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

Thanks for your report.

Your system is in a bad state. What have you done, did you update the libc ?
Is it still an issue ?

not an update-manager issue indeed reassigning to glibc

Thanks.

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!