I was just trying another test upgrade on the same virtual machine (from
karmic to lucid).

This time, the coreutils/gnulib bug actually caused the upgrade process to 
abort, after dpkg printed these line:
==========
Setting up slapd (2.4.21-0ubuntu3) ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/ldap/schema/ldapns.schema ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/apparmor.d/usr.sbin.slapd ...
  Backing up /etc/ldap/slapd.d/ in /var/backups/slapd-2.4.18-0ubuntu1... cp: 
preserving times for 
`/var/backups/slapd-2.4.18-0ubuntu1/slapd.d/cn=config/cn=schema': Bad file 
descriptor
cp: preserving times for 
`/var/backups/slapd-2.4.18-0ubuntu1/slapd.d/cn=config': Bad file descriptor
cp: preserving times for `/var/backups/slapd-2.4.18-0ubuntu1/slapd.d': Bad file 
descriptor
dpkg: error processing slapd (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
===============

(Note that the three paths mentioned in the error messages all refer to
directories.)

I was able to get slapd to install/configure successfully by extracting
the /bin/tar binary out of the Debian Squeeze coreutils 8.4 package,
installing it into /bin on my test system, and then running "dpkg
--configure --pending"...

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coreutils affected by "Bad file descriptor" error with new glibc on older kernel
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/552816
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