updating doesn't work anymore

[Joep L. Blom]

Markus Schönhaber wrote:
> 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.
> 
Markus<
You'r a genius! That did the trick. I now have again a fully updated Karmic.
Thank you so much.
Joep