Comment 2 for bug 274960

I am experiencing a similar issue 8.04 LTS

Running apt-get fails. Below is partial output, it goes down hill from there.
# apt-get -u upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
16 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Setting up libc6-i686 (2.7-10ubuntu4) ...
Segmentation fault
dpkg: error processing libc6-i686 (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 139

The problem bean with a routine update using update manager.