[Bug 1183682] Re: Upgrade i386 12.10 to 13.04 fails segfaulting in libc 2.17 breaking system

[Sasa Paporovic]

So, it is primary a problem with dpkg.

Could you check if tar is installed on your system?


Could you reinstall tar and try the distribution upgade again? May be that solve your problem.


Could you give a kern/system log that shows the seqfault. Is dpkg involved?

** Changed in: ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Incomplete

** Summary changed:

- Upgrade i386 12.10 to 13.04 fails segfaulting in libc 2.17 breaking system
+ Upgrade i386 12.10 to 13.04 fails segfaulting in libc 2.17 breaking system - dpkg affected

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Title:
  Upgrade i386 12.10 to 13.04 fails segfaulting in libc 2.17 breaking
  system - dpkg affected

Status in “ubuntu-release-upgrader” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  I upgraded using console do-release-upgrade on i386 (Intel Pentium 4 HT with 64bit support) from 12.10 to 13.04.
  After installing a couple of packets during upgrade including libc, all subproccesses startet to segfault in libc-2.17.so , so upgrade abortet though the system was in an unusable state.

   Booting into initramfs gives me a console but chroot /root bash fails
  with a double free error and chroot ... dpkg as well as other tools
  still fail with libc segfault.

  
  I could not find any information about raised hardware requirements but would have expected do-release-upgrade to check for them if applicable.

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