Package: libc6 Severity: Serious Yesterday, I tred to upgrade libc6 on my Debian GNU/testing system. But it didn't work. The packages are marked as broken in synaptic. Today, I tried apt-get -f install, but it fails too:
root@notebook4:/home/philipp# LANG=C apt-get -f install Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Correcting dependencies... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: gtk2-engines libglewmx1.10 libgtkglext1-dev libintl-perl libjsoncpp0v5 libopenraw1v5 libpangox-1.0-dev libsigc++-1.2-5c2 libusb-1.0-0:i386 lockfile-progs qemu-kvm Use 'apt autoremove' to remove them. The following additional packages will be installed: libc6 libc6:i386 libc6-i686:i386 Suggested packages: glibc-doc glibc-doc:i386 libc-l10n:i386 locales:i386 The following packages will be upgraded: libc6 libc6:i386 libc6-i686:i386 3 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 950 not upgraded. 4 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0 B/6181 kB of archives. After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] debconf: Perl may be unconfigured (Unknown regexp modifier "/g" at /usr/share/perl/5.22/Text/Wrap.pm line 31, at end of line BEGIN not safe after errors--compilation aborted at /usr/share/perl/5.22/Text/Wrap.pm line 35. Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Template.pm line 10. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Template.pm line 10. Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Question.pm line 8. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Question.pm line 8. Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Config.pm line 7. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Config.pm line 7. Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Log.pm line 10. Compilation failed in require at (eval 1) line 4. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at (eval 1) line 4. ) -- aborting (Reading database ... 388478 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../libc6_2.21-9_amd64.deb ... De-configuring libc6:i386 (2.21-8) ... Unknown regexp modifier "/g" at /usr/share/perl/5.22/Text/Wrap.pm line 31, at end of line BEGIN not safe after errors--compilation aborted at /usr/share/perl/5.22/Text/Wrap.pm line 35. Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Template.pm line 10. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Template.pm line 10. Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Question.pm line 8. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Question.pm line 8. Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Config.pm line 7. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Config.pm line 7. Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Log.pm line 10. Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Db.pm line 7. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Db.pm line 7. Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/debconf/frontend line 6. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/debconf/frontend line 6. dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.21-9_amd64.deb (--unpack): subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 255 Preparing to unpack .../archives/libc6_2.21-9_i386.deb ... De-configuring libc6:amd64 (2.21-8) ... Unknown regexp modifier "/g" at /usr/share/perl/5.22/Text/Wrap.pm line 31, at end of line BEGIN not safe after errors--compilation aborted at /usr/share/perl/5.22/Text/Wrap.pm line 35. Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Template.pm line 10. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Template.pm line 10. Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Question.pm line 8. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Question.pm line 8. Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Config.pm line 7. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Config.pm line 7. Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Log.pm line 10. Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Db.pm line 7. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Db.pm line 7. Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/debconf/frontend line 6. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/debconf/frontend line 6. dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.21-9_i386.deb (--unpack): subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 255 Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.21-9) ... Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.21-9_amd64.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.21-9_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Philipp P.S.: How can I get my system back into a useable state? Since the failure is on de-configuring, I guess, I can't go back to an older version either?