Bug#611629: libc6: fail to upgrade with "Can't locate auto/Hash/Util/bootstpap.al in @INC"

[Teodor MICU <mteodor@gmail.com>]

Hi,

2011/1/31 Adam D. Barratt <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>:
> Looking at the log, it doesn't appear the errors are actually due to
> libc6, however.  This section suggests a broken package; it would be
> interesting to narrow down which package caused it, so we can determine
> whether it is a local or mirror issue:

I've redownloaded libc6-i686 multiple times with the same effect.
However I've performed a second upgrade on another system and it
worked in three steps: dpkg, libc6, all remaining.

>> | dpkg-deb (subprocess): data: internal bzip2 read error: 'DATA_ERROR'
>> | dpkg-deb: subprocess <decompress> returned error exit status 2
>> | dpkg-deb (subprocess): failed in write on buffer copy for failed to
>> write to pipe in copy: Broken pipe
>
> The appearance of this error also points towards a likely local problem:
>
>> | Can't locate auto/Hash/Util/bootstpap.al in @INC (@INC contains:
>
> The copy of /usr/lib/perl/5.10/Hash/Util.pm shipped by perl-base 5.10.1-17
> (the version in both squeeze and sid) has line 34 as:
>
> bootstrap Hash::Util $VERSION;
>
> rather than the "bootstpap" in your error log.

I've manually corrected this and the installation continued without
error. I've reinstalled perl-base (from the old downloaded package in
/var/cache/apt) and the new Util.pm file is correct. So a broken
Debian repository mirror is not the issue.

Thanks