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

[David Curtis]

Rick Knight wrote:
> I upgraded from 7.10 to 8.04 a week or so ago and everything went OK. My 
> PC has been running fine since. Today I wanted to install EncFS, but 
> apt-get failed with these messages...
> 
> sudo apt-get install encfs
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these:
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>  encfs: Depends: librlog1c2a but it is not going to be installed
>  libc6-i686: PreDepends: libc6 (= 2.7-10ubuntu3) but 2.7-10ubuntu4 is to 
> be installed
> E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or 
> specify a solution).
> 
> Running apt-get -f install yields this...
> 
> sudo apt-get -f install
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> Correcting dependencies... Done
> The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer 
> required:
>  libwvstreams4.3-extras liblaunchpad-integration0 libmtp6 libneon26
>  xserver-xorg-video-amd libsnmp10 g++-4.1 libhal-storage-dev libdns32
>  libcamel1.2-10 libxalan110 libsoup2.2-8 libgpod2 libgnome-menu2 
> libnss3-dev
>  libcdio6 libstdc++6-4.1-dev libsvg1 libgutenprintui2-1 ecj 
> libpt-plugins-v4l
>  libbrlapi1 libwvstreams4.3-base libiso9660-4 libhal-dev libsvnqt3
>  libpt-plugins-alsa libdb4.5 libtotem-plparser7 libuniconf4.3 libytnef0
>  libxerces27 libnss3-0d libkdcraw1 libntfs-3g16 libpisync0
> Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
> The following extra packages will be installed:
>  libc6-i686
> The following packages will be upgraded:
>  libc6-i686
> 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 37 not upgraded.
> 8 not fully installed or removed.
> Need to get 0B/1243kB of archives.
> After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
> Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
> *** stack smashing detected ***: /usr/bin/perl terminated
> Segmentation fault
> Setting up libc6 (2.7-10ubuntu4) ...
> *** stack smashing detected ***: /usr/bin/perl terminated
> dpkg: error processing libc6 (--configure):
> subprocess post-installation script killed by signal (Segmentation fault)
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> libc6
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> 
> So, I opened Adept Package Manager to try to install EncFS. Selected 
> encfs and then looked in Preview Changes and found that libc6-i686 is 
> listed as...
> libc6-i686        BROKEN (upgradable)         upgrade
> 
> Because of the broken libc6-i686 I am unable to install encfs. How can I 
> fix this?
> 
> Thanks,
> Rick
> 
> 
Looks like libc6-2.7-10ubuntu4 is from hardy-proposed. Are you testing?