This is an addendum to my original message.
Einstein defined insanity as: "trying the same thing and expecting a
different answer". In spite of that I tried apt-get dist-upgrade again
and got:
root@AbNormal:/home/comp# apt dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
libarchive13 tzdata
2 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0 B/567 kB of archives.
After this operation, 12.3 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
Accepting the default I got:
ldconfig: Writing of cache data failed: No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing package libc-bin (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
libc-bin
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
root@AbNormal:/home/comp#
slightly different from my first message.
-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: Upgrade Problem
Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2019 09:54:44 -0500
From: Stephen P. Molnar <s.mol...@sbcglobal.net>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
I am running Debian Stretch and have just encountered a problem during
a routine apt-get dist-upgrade.
Specifically, it failed with the following error messages.
E: libc-bin: subprocess installed post-installation script returned
error exit status 1
Please advise.
Thanks in advance.
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