dpkg broken while upgrading Debian Etch to Lenny

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Published on 2011-02-04T11:32:32Z Indexed on 2011/02/04 15:27 UTC
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Good day!

While trying to recover a box to lenny it seems I've broken things. It upgrades libc and glib after that dpkg seems to be broken.

I can run apt-get, but it gets segmentation fault from dpkg:

# apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 316 not upgraded.
9 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
/bin/sh: line 1:  4606 Segmentation fault      /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg received a segmentation fault.

I can login via SSH but even ls is not working:

# ls
Segmentation fault

Is there anything I can do remotelly via SSH?

    # ldd /bin/ls
    linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0xffffe000)
    librt.so.1 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/librt.so.1 (0xb7fc8000)
    libacl.so.1 => /lib/libacl.so.1 (0xb7fc2000)
    libselinux.so.1 => /lib/libselinux.so.1 (0xb7fac000)
    libc.so.6 => /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (0xb7e51000)
    libpthread.so.0 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0 (0xb7e3f000)
    /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7fd8000)
    libattr.so.1 => /lib/libattr.so.1 (0xb7e3b000)
    libdl.so.2 => /lib/i686/cmov/libdl.so.2 (0xb7e37000)
    libsepol.so.1 => /lib/libsepol.so.1 (0xb7df6000)

It seems I've temporary fixed it with:

 # touch /etc/ld.so.nohwcap

From here: http://saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com/blog/archive/2005/08/_etc_ld_so_nohwcap.html

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