updating doesn't work anymore

[Markus Schönhaber]

21.05.2010 16:02, Joep L. Blom:

> ===================================================
>   sudo apt-get --reinstall install libc-bin
> [sudo] password for joep:
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 15 not 
> upgraded.
> 1 not fully installed or removed.
> After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
> Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
> Setting up libc-bin (2.10.1-0ubuntu16) ...
> dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute installed post-installation script: 
> Exec format error
> dpkg: error processing libc-bin (--configure):
>   subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>   libc-bin
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> ============================================================

As I suggested in my other post
<https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/2010-May/219178.html>
Try to move all the libc-bin* files in /var/lib/dpkg/info out of the way
and re-install libc-bin. I am pretty confident that will work.
Even if not, you'll probably get another error message that might be
helpful.

-- 
Regards
  mks