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Environment?

  • Windows Subsystem for Linux.
  • Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS
  • apt 1.6.11 (amd64)

What's wrong?

apt upgrade and apt autoremove not working. apt upgrade gives the following message

$ sudo apt upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
  gir1.2-gtk-3.0 gtk-update-icon-cache libegl-mesa0 libgbm1 libgl1-mesa-dev libgl1-mesa-dri libgl1-mesa-glx libglapi-mesa
  libglx-mesa0 libgtk-3-0 libgtk-3-bin libgtk-3-common libmspack0 linux-libc-dev mesa-common-dev
15 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0 B/12.4 MB of archives.
After this operation, 4096 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y
Setting up libc-bin (2.27-3ubuntu1) ...
Aborted (core dumped)
/sbin/ldconfig.real: Can't stat /usr/local/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu: No such file or directory
/sbin/ldconfig.real: Path `/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu' given more than once
/sbin/ldconfig.real: Path `/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu' given more than once
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libfakeroot:
        libfakeroot-0.so -> libfakeroot-tcp.so
/usr/local/lib:
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu:
Aborted (core dumped)
dpkg: error processing package libc-bin (--configure):
 installed libc-bin package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 134
Errors were encountered while processing:
 libc-bin
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

apt autoremove gives the following message

$ sudo apt autoremove
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 15 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up libc-bin (2.27-3ubuntu1) ...
Aborted (core dumped)
/sbin/ldconfig.real: Can't stat /usr/local/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu: No such file or directory
/sbin/ldconfig.real: Path `/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu' given more than once
/sbin/ldconfig.real: Path `/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu' given more than once
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libfakeroot:
        libfakeroot-0.so -> libfakeroot-tcp.so
/usr/local/lib:
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu:
Aborted (core dumped)
dpkg: error processing package libc-bin (--configure):
 installed libc-bin package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 134
Errors were encountered while processing:
 libc-bin
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

apt update and apt autoclean seem to be working correctly.

Reproduce?

I have no idea what caused the error... Also, I do not think I have done any dangerous operation to non-user files recently. I have googled the error messages I got, but fruitless. Anyone any idea?

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Ruminateer
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4 Answers4

15

Interestingly enough, when I tried what Eric Gazoni did when his slapd failed, of course dpkg didn't want me to forcibly remove vital organs of Ubuntu ;) ... But after stubbornly executing through his instructions, replacing slapd by libc-bin, and afterwards moving /tmp/libc-bin.* back to /var/lib/dpkg/info/, it repaired itself!

So, essentially this did the trick, although it is possible that not every command is necessary:

sudo mv /var/lib/dpkg/info/libc-bin.* /tmp/
sudo dpkg --remove --force-remove-reinstreq libc-bin
sudo dpkg --purge libc-bin
sudo apt install --reinstall libc-bin
sudo mv /tmp/libc-bin.* /var/lib/dpkg/info/
mchid
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MrExquisite
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13

A slightly less invasive fix:

for PROBDIR in "" "/usr" "/usr/local"; do find "${PROBDIR}/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu" -type f -ls; done;

Source: https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/4760

Scott Stevens
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5

This worked for me on WSL Ubuntu 20.04 to fix a coredump

for PROBDIR in "" "/usr" "/usr/local"; do find "${PROBDIR}/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu" -type f -ls; done;
sudo apt install libc-bin -y
sudo mv /var/lib/dpkg/info/libc-bin.* /tmp/
sudo apt install libc-bin -y
Jonathan
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4

Nothing else worked! Finally I tried his steps and voila! Back on track again

How to get software updates working in 16.04? It broke after a failed upgrade to 18.04

apt-get download libc-bin
sudo dpkg -x libc-bin*.deb /
sudo apt-get install --reinstall ./libc-bin*.deb
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