Problem installing libc6_2.28-10_i386.deb while doing an apt-get dist-upgrade

[Member model99]

I have a frugal install of antiX 19.3

The following text is from trying to do a sudo apt-get –fix-broken install
after having the same error message appear when I did a sudo apt-get dist-upgrade.

$ sudo apt-get --fix-broken install
[sudo] password for demo: 
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:
  libexo-1-0 liblua5.2-0 libvulkan1
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following additional packages will be installed:
  libc6:i386
Suggested packages:
  glibc-doc:i386 locales:i386
Recommended packages:
  libidn2-0:i386
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libc6:i386
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0 B/2,743 kB of archives.
After this operation, 11.8 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 207973 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../libc6_2.28-10_i386.deb ...
ERROR: Your kernel version indicates a revision number
of 255 or greater.  Glibc has a number of built in
assumptions that this revision number is less than 255.
If you\'ve built your own kernel, please make sure that any
custom version numbers are appended to the upstream
kernel number with a dash or some other delimiter.

dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.28-10_i386.deb (--unpack):
 new libc6:i386 package pre-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.28-10_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Here is information about my computer:

System:
  Host: antix1 Kernel: 4.9.264-antix.1-amd64-smp x86_64 bits: 64 
  Desktop: IceWM 2.3.4 
  Distro: antiX-19.3_x64-full Manolis Glezos 15 October 2020 
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: HP product: HP Notebook v: Type1ProductConfigId 
  serial: <root required> 
  Mobo: HP model: 81EB v: 61.38 serial: <root required> UEFI: Insyde v: F.21 
  date: 10/27/2016 
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT1 charge: 30.4 Wh condition: 30.4/31.1 Wh (98%) 
CPU:
  Dual Core: Intel Core i3-6100U type: MT MCP speed: 700 MHz 
  min/max: 400/2300 MHz 
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel HD Graphics 520 driver: i915 v: kernel 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.4 driver: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa 
  resolution: 1366x768~60Hz 
  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel HD Graphics 520 (Skylake GT2) 
  v: 4.5 Mesa 18.3.6 
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8101/2/6E PCI Express Fast/Gigabit Ethernet 
  driver: r8169 
  Device-2: Intel Wireless 3165 driver: iwlwifi 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 931.51 GiB used: 10.14 GiB (1.1%) 
Info:
  Processes: 146 Uptime: 12m Memory: 7.76 GiB used: 515.0 MiB (6.5%) 
  Shell: bash inxi: 3.0.36 

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This is a problem already reported in the forum.
The recommendation is to install the latest 4.9.0-264 kernel using the package installer, reboot and select the kernel from the grub advanced boot menu.
When inside the system, check it is the correct kernel 4.9.0-264
uname .r
fix packages again. After this, REMOVE ALL 4.9.XXX kernels except for the 4.9.0-XXX one. This is important so that it automatically boots into this kernel in the future.

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General Live Boot Parameters for antiX.

[Member model99]

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As stated in my original post this is a frugal install and from my computer information
you can see kernel 4.9.0-264 is already installed and boots into that kernel.

But I did take your advice to remove any older kernels from the frugal install.

From Synaptics history log:

Completely removed the following packages:
linux-image-4.9.235-antix.1-amd64-smp

Removed the following packages:
codecs-antix
libgcc1:i386

Completely removed the following packages:
linux-image-4.9.261-antix.1-amd64-smp

After that I did another “sudo apt-get –fix-broken install” and it was clean.

That is a first for me in 15+ years using Linux that I had to remove a Linux kernel
to solve a dependency problem.

[Forum Admin anticapitalista]

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It maybe a first for you, but the issue was documented.

https://antixlinux.com/new-builds-of-4-4-and-4-9-kernels/

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