apt upgrade stuck at "Setting up libc6:amd64 (2.37-14) ..."

[liyafe1997]

Windows Version

10.0.22631.3085

WSL Version

2.0.15.0

Are you using WSL 1 or WSL 2?

• WSL 2
• WSL 1

Kernel Version

5.15.133.1-1

Distro Version

Debian testing

Other Software

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Repro Steps

In Debian Testing

sudo apt update
sudo apt dist-upgrade

While upgrading libc6:amd64 (2.37-14), it stuck forever.

Expected Behavior

Should be able to upgrade

Actual Behavior

And I can see telinit u takes 100% CPU

A lot of people also having this problem:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/77885938/stuck-setting-up-libc6i386

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/767340/apt-stuck-on-setting-up-libc6

Diagnostic Logs

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[cotste]

I had the same issue, #11035 (comment) fixed it.

As far as I can tell if you don't have

[boot] systemd=true

The /run/systemd/system directory is not created and the tests in the postinst for libc fail:

    # Restart init.  Currently handles chroots, systemd and upstart, and
    # assumes anything else is going to not fail at behaving like
    # sysvinit:
    TELINIT=yes
    if ischroot 2>/dev/null; then
        # Don't bother trying to re-exec init from a chroot:
        TELINIT=no
    elif [ -n "${DPKG_ROOT:-}" ]; then
        # Do not re-exec init if we are operating on a chroot from outside:
        TELINIT=no
    elif [ -d /run/systemd/system ]; then
        # Restart systemd on upgrade, but carefully.
        # The restart is wanted because of LP: #1942276 and Bug: #993821
        # The care is needed because of https://bugs.debian.org/753725
        # (if systemd --help fails the system might still be quite broken but
        # that seems better than the kernel panic that results if systemd
        # cannot reexec itself).
        TELINIT=no
        if systemd --help >/dev/null 2>/dev/null; then
            systemctl daemon-reexec
        else
            echo "Error: Could not restart systemd, systemd binary not working" >&2
        fi
    fi
    if [ "$TELINIT" = "yes" ]; then
        telinit u 2>/dev/null || true ; sleep 1
    fi

[tj64]

The above fix did not work for me, but this answer did:
mtraceur
Jan 23 at 2:53
"I fixed this with sudo mv /usr/sbin/telinit /usr/sbin/telinit.bak and then sudo ln -s /usr/bin/true /usr/sbin/telinit"

But then with the next upgrade to "Setting up libc6:amd64 (2.37-15) ..." my fix apparently was overriden again in the process, and the upgrade got stuck forever again.

$ ls -al /usr/sbin/ |grep telinit
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root        16 Jan 29 11:46 telinit -> ../bin/systemctl
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root        16 Nov 22 23:23 telinit.bak -> ../bin/systemctl

So I had to repeat the fix

sudo mv /usr/sbin/telinit /usr/sbin/telinit.bak2
sudo ln -s /usr/bin/true /usr/sbin/telinit

and I could do this again
sudo dpgk --configure -a

to successfully do this in the end
sudo apt upgrade

[Querynalhabsyi]

Thanks works for me!

[echo1ng]

It works for me, thank you😊.

[myariffx]

thanks. it works for me.

[SlyDcooper]

worked for me too thanks bro

[elrashedy1992]

worked for

[lanaparadinha]

and I could do this again
sudo dpgk --configure -a

sudo dpkg --configure -a << correctly

Thx this work for me too