I can confirm this behaviour, except I do not (never had) libc6-i686 installed. System: Unstable, Linux 2.6.22-2-k7
# dpkg -l libc6* (...) iF libc6 2.6.1-5 rc libc6-dev 2.6.1-5 un libc6-dev-amd64 <none> un libc6-i686 <none> un libc6.1 <none> un libc6.1-dev <none> # apt-get -f install Reading package lists... Done (...) The following extra packages will be installed: libc6-dev libgphoto2-2 libgphoto2-2-dev Suggested packages: glibc-doc manpages-dev gphoto2 gtkam The following NEW packages will be installed: libc6-dev The following packages will be upgraded: libgphoto2-2 libgphoto2-2-dev 2 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 189 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B/9164kB of archives. After unpacking 15,4MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Reading package fields... Done Reading package status... Done Retrieving bug reports... Done Parsing Found/Fixed information... Done /bin/sh: line 1: 13982 Segmentation fault /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt Setting up libc6 (2.6.1-5) ... dpkg: error processing libc6 (--configure): subprocess post-installation script killed by signal (Segmentation fault) Errors were encountered while processing: libc6 E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Hope that helps. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]