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After upgrading to Ubuntu 16.04, I cannot update my system. After the usual:

apt-get upgrade

I get this error: 

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Setting up libc-bin (2.23-0ubuntu3) ...
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
/sbin/ldconfig.real: Can't stat /lib/i686-linux-gnu: No such file or directory
/sbin/ldconfig.real: Can't stat /usr/lib/i686-linux-gnu: No such file or directory
/sbin/ldconfig.real: Path `/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu' given more than once
/sbin/ldconfig.real: Path `/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu' given more than once
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
dpkg: error processing package libc-bin (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 139
Errors were encountered while processing:
 libc-bin
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Any ideas on how to fix this? apt-get clean and apt-get -f install did nothing.

Molorius
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Here the reason seemed to be a corrupted /var/cache/ldconfig/aux-cache.

The solution was to do (as root):

rm /var/cache/ldconfig/aux-cache

And afterwards execute

/sbin/ldconfig
Zanna
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Christof
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I used to have the same error here, I did the following command:

 sudo apt-get --reinstall install libc-bin

And it worked, it reinstalled the libc-bin package and solved the issue.

Hope it helps

Vitor Abella
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Mario Junior
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If it is in WSL, try (tks lifesaver.codes)

sudo mv /var/lib/dpkg/info/libc-bin.* /tmp/

sudo dpkg --remove --force-remove-reinstreq libc-bin

sudo dpkg --purge libc-bin

sudo apt install libc-bin

sudo mv /tmp/libc-bin.* /var/lib/dpkg/info/
Artur Meinild
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Bigumangaba
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I had this problem, it turned out to be limits related. This resolved it:

limit datasize 2000M
Steven Borho
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I had to run sudo rm /var/cache/ldconfig/aux-cache and sudo /sbin/ldconfig.real on WSL Ubuntu 20.04 .

Luis Lopes
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With rm aux-cache i got

/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu:

Aborted (core dumped)

and only https://askubuntu.com/a/1411267/1423238 helps

dragonfly
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