Stuck with apt --fix-broken install (libc6:amd64 package post-installation)

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My system runs inside WSL, I upgrade it at least every few days. I stuck with one package installation, and looking for a way to solve this:

$ sudo apt --fix-broken 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:
  libbind9-161 libdns-export1107 libdns1107 libdns1109 libirs161 libisc-export1104 libisc1104 libisc1105 libisccc161
  libisccfg163 liblwres161 liboauth0
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following additional packages will be installed:
  libc-bin
The following packages will be upgraded:
  libc-bin
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 882 not upgraded.
6 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0 B/633 kB of archives.
After this operation, 8,192 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
Setting up libc6:amd64 (2.31-0ubuntu6) ...
Checking for services that may need to be restarted...
Checking init scripts...
Nothing to restart.
sleep: cannot read realtime clock: Invalid argument
dpkg: error processing package libc6:amd64 (--configure):
 installed libc6:amd64 package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 libc6:amd64
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

What can I try next?

ubuntu-20.04 ubuntu apt package
3 Answers

I ran into the same problem, and this procedure from this bug report fixed it:

Edit /var/lib/dpkg/info/libc6\:amd64.postinst

and comment out the line

# set -e

so $ apt-get -f install can continue.

Martijn_30921160

You can use this sequence of commands (up to 3) to force a re-download of the partial files of the offending packages. Remaining steps are done to merge the new files with the old one, to avoid warnings and issues on non-offending packages that do not get downloaded in this attempt.

  1. sudo mv /var/lib/dpkg/info /var/lib/dpkg/info_old
  2. sudo mkdir /var/lib/dpkg/info
  3. sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get -f install
  4. sudo mv /var/lib/dpkg/info/* /var/lib/dpkg/info_old
  5. sudo rm -rf /var/lib/dpkg/info怀
  6. sudo mv /var/lib/dpkg/info_old /var/lib/dpkg/info
user_53031880

I ran into the same problem when upgrading Kali Linux inside WSL. I used these sequence of commands to fix the issue

  1. cd /tmp
  2. apt -y download libcrypt1
  3. dpkg-deb -x libcrypt1_1%3a4.4.27-1.1_amd64.deb .
  4. cp -av lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/* /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/
  5. apt -y --fix-broken install
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