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

[Rick Knight]

David Curtis wrote:
> 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?
>
>   
David,

Thanks for the reply. No, I'm not testing. This is on a standard Hardy 
8.04 upgrade (via the `net) from 7.10. Is libc6-2.7-10ubuntu4 a newer 
version than what hardy 8.04 normally installs? If so, how can I downgrade?

Thanks,
Rick