Thanks Aurelien,
the problem indeed is just the simulate run, the real apt-get install
succeeds:
# apt-get install libc-bin
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
libc-dev-bin libc6 libc6-dev libc6-i686 locales
Suggested packages:
glibc-doc
Recommended packages:
manpages-dev
The following packages will be upgraded:
libc-bin libc-dev-bin libc6 libc6-dev libc6-i686 locales
6 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 369 not upgraded.
Need to get 14.7MB/15.4MB of archives.
After this operation, 69.6kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
Get:1 http://ftp.de.debian.org squeeze/main libc6 2.10.2-2 [3,837kB]
Get:2 http://ftp.de.debian.org squeeze/main libc6-i686 2.10.2-2
[1,182kB]
Get:3 http://ftp.de.debian.org squeeze/main libc6-dev 2.10.2-2 [4,732kB]
Get:4 http://ftp.de.debian.org squeeze/main libc-dev-bin 2.10.2-2
[194kB]
Get:5 http://ftp.de.debian.org squeeze/main locales 2.10.2-2 [4,753kB]
Fetched 14.4MB in 32s (443kB/s)
Preconfiguring packages ...
locales failed to preconfigure, with exit status 1
dpkg: considering deconfiguration of libc6, which would be broken by
installation of libc-bin ...
dpkg: yes, will deconfigure libc6 (broken by libc-bin).
(Reading database ... 95380 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace libc-bin 2.9-25 (using
.../libc-bin_2.10.2-2_i386.deb) ...
De-configuring libc6 ...
Unpacking replacement libc-bin ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up libc-bin (2.10.2-2) ...
(Reading database ... 95380 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace libc6 2.9-25 (using .../libc6_2.10.2-2_i386.deb)
...
Checking for services that may need to be restarted...
Checking init scripts...
Unpacking replacement libc6 ...
Setting up libc6 (2.10.2-2) ...
Checking for services that may need to be restarted...
Checking init scripts...
Restarting services possibly affected by the upgrade:
ssh: stopping...starting...done.
cron: stopping...starting...done.
Services restarted successfully.
(Reading database ... 95379 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace libc6-i686 2.9-25 (using
.../libc6-i686_2.10.2-2_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement libc6-i686 ...
Preparing to replace libc6-dev 2.9-25 (using
.../libc6-dev_2.10.2-2_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement libc6-dev ...
Preparing to replace libc-dev-bin 2.9-25 (using
.../libc-dev-bin_2.10.2-2_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement libc-dev-bin ...
Preparing to replace locales 2.9-25 (using .../locales_2.10.2-2_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement locales ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up libc6-i686 (2.10.2-2) ...
Setting up libc-dev-bin (2.10.2-2) ...
Setting up libc6-dev (2.10.2-2) ...
Setting up locales (2.10.2-2) ...
Generating locales (this might take a while)...
en_US.UTF-8... done
Generation complete.
- oz
Aurelien Jarno wrote:
reassign 559733 apt
thanks
[...]
Given that 'apt-get install -s' fails, but 'apt-get install' succeeds,
it's most probably an apt-get bug. Reassigning.
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