The libc6 package was not successfully upgraded during the distribution upgrade process. Rerunning the install by hand using the command apt-get install --reinstall libc6 turned out that the upgrade failed because another copy of the libc was found in place
A copy of the C library was found in an unexpected directory: '/lib/libc-2.12.1.so.back' It is not safe to upgrade the C library in this situation; please remove that copy of the C library or get it out of '/lib' and try again. so I had to move the followin files out of /lib libc-2.12.1.so libdl-2.12.1.so libm-2.12.1.so libpthread-2.12.1.so librt-2.12.1.so after that I successfully ran the reinstall command which also performed the following tasks (Reading database ... 246367 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace libc6 2.13-0ubuntu13 (using .../libc6_2.13-20ubuntu5_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement libc6 ... Setting up libc6 (2.13-20ubuntu5) ... Setting up libc6-dev (2.13-20ubuntu5) ... Setting up libusb-dev (2:0.1.12-18) ... Setting up libusb-1.0-0-dev (2:1.0.8-4) ... Setting up lsb-core (4.0-0ubuntu16) ... Setting up libstdc++6-4.6-dev (4.6.1-9ubuntu3) ... Setting up libstdc++6-4.5-dev (4.5.3-9ubuntu1) ... Setting up libusb++-dev (2:0.1.12-18) ... Setting up g++-4.6 (4.6.1-9ubuntu3) ... Setting up g++ (4:4.6.1-2ubuntu5) ... Setting up g++-4.5 (4.5.3-9ubuntu1) ... Processing triggers for libc-bin ... ldconfig deferred processing now taking place After that I restarted the machine and it worked without problem -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/874030 Title: package libc6 2.13-0ubuntu13 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: package libc6 is already installed and configured To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dpkg/+bug/874030/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
