libc6 broken - Can't install any apps - Hardy 8.04

[Rick Knight]

Derek Broughton wrote:
> Ric Moore wrote:
>
>   
>> On Fri, 2008-09-12 at 18:53 -0700, Rick Knight wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> Because of the broken libc6-i686 I am unable to install encfs. How can I
>>> fix this?
>>>       
>> It's been my experience that when the upgrade process upgrades anything
>> like libc it's best for your machine to be in stupid mode
>>     
>
> I haven't had a problem with this since the upgrade processed
> introduced "deferred" processing for ldconfig, but the simple solution for
> this specific case is usually:
>
> # sudo aptitude remove libc6-i686
> # sudo aptitude -f install
> # sudo aptitude ...  
> (ie, whatever you were really trying to do - installing encfs, upgrading,
> etc)
> # sudo aptitude install libc6-i686
>
> You never _need_ libc6-i686, it just provides some optimized routines, and
> it's possible to get libc6 and libc6-i686 out of sync.
>   

I removed hardy-proposed and ran apt-get update and then dpkg 
--configure -a. That removed libc6-dev. Tonight I'll try what you 
suggest above. I was able to install encfs, but I have another app that 
won't install, gramofile. Maybe that will solve that problem.
>   
>> , booting from 
>> a CD or DVD image, and it has mounted your file system to make the
>> change over as either an "fresh install" or "upgrade", not while running
>> live. You may get lucky and re-boot to find everything peachy or find
>> everything in smoke and ruins. <grins>
>>     
>
> That's not even worth a <grin>.  There's nothing funny about a system so
> b0rked that it can't be upgraded.  Personally, I think you're foolishly
> paranoid, but if you really believe the upgrade process is this dangerous
> you should be filing bug reports and trying to help fix it.
>
> In this particularly case, it can't possibly have anything to do with Rick's
> upgrade anyway.  libc6 doesn't just stop working a week after it's
> modified. It's got to be the actual encfs install.
>   

Thanks Derek