Upgrading from Breezy AMD64 to Dapper - glibc error
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
glibc (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
|
Medium
|
Matthias Klose | ||
Dapper |
Invalid
|
Medium
|
Unassigned |
Bug Description
After changing my etc/apt/
Fetched 638MB in 24m30s (434kB/s)
Extracting templates from packages: 100%
Preconfiguring packages ...
/tmp/x11-
/tmp/xserver-
(Reading database ... 91720 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace perl-modules 5.8.7-5ubuntu1.2 (using .../perl-
Unpacking replacement perl-modules ...
Preparing to replace linux-kernel-
Unpacking replacement linux-kernel-
Preparing to replace libc6-dev 2.3.5-1ubuntu12 (using .../libc6-
Unpacking replacement libc6-dev ...
Preparing to replace libc6 2.3.5-1ubuntu12 (using .../libc6_
These libraries were found in /usr/lib:
libc.so.6
A copy of glibc was found in an unexpected directory.
It is not safe to upgrade the C library in this situation;
please remove that copy of the C library and try again.
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/
subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Here's the output of "apt-get -f install" after that.
jason@jave02:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
libc6
Suggested packages:
glibc-doc
The following packages will be upgraded:
libc6
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 986 not upgraded.
3 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/4053kB of archives.
After unpacking 5738kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 91812 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace libc6 2.3.5-1ubuntu12 (using .../libc6_
These libraries were found in /usr/lib:
libc.so.6
A copy of glibc was found in an unexpected directory.
It is not safe to upgrade the C library in this situation;
please remove that copy of the C library and try again.
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/
subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Changed in upgrade-system: | |
status: | Unconfirmed → Rejected |
Changed in glibc: | |
status: | Unconfirmed → Rejected |
status: | Rejected → Unconfirmed |
One task is enough