This is not a bug. It's quite intentional that libs's preinst bombs if you have extra copies of libc (in this case, an ancient libc 2.11?) in your search path. Is there a reason you need that there?
** Changed in: eglibc (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1065477 Title: update failure because of libc To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/eglibc/+bug/1065477/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs