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

[UWP]

After even more testing I can say, it's definitely triggered by XFCE
stuff. Now I'm using gnome desktop and everything runs fine. But: the
segfaults happened in libc & libglib, so the problem is definitely
inside one of those libs. Maybe the gnome stuff itself doesn't use the
i386-parts? Then why a firefox start doesn't crash the gnome system,
firefox itself hasn't changed and I bet it uses the same routines and
libs like under XFCE.

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

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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