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I am using Ubuntu 12.04 32 bit in hp pavilion dv6 laptop (AMD Processor) after upgrade and reboot, the desktop doesn't start and at cui (Ctrl + Alt + F1). When I try to login to my user and following error shows:

apt-config :/lib/i386-linux-gnu/lib.so.6:version 'GLIBC_2.17' NOT FOUND (required by /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6)

when I type sudo apt-get command same error shows up and apt-get command doesn't work. All I have is character user interface.

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  • Did you copy/paste the error message above correctly ? Isn't it libc.so.6 that was printed on your screen ?
    – Benoit
    Aug 20, 2014 at 11:04
  • the error as shown is libstdc++.so.6
    – Ramesh Khadka
    Aug 20, 2014 at 11:19
  • could you run ldd /usr/bin/apt-config and share the output ?
    – Benoit
    Aug 20, 2014 at 12:47
  • ldd /usr/bin/apt-config also shows above error and produces following output:
    – Ramesh Khadka
    Aug 20, 2014 at 16:01
  • linux-gate.so.1=>(hex address) libapt-pkg.so.4.12=>/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.4.12(hex address) libstdc++.so.6=>/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6(hex addr) libgcc_s.so.1=>lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1(hex addr) lib.so.6=>lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(hex addr) libutil.so.1=>/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libutil.so.1(hex addr) libdl.so.2=>/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2(hex addr) slib3.so.1=>/lib/i386-linux-gnu/lib3.so.1(hex addr) libm.so.6=>lib/i386-linux-gnu/libm.so.6(hex addr) /lib/ld-linux.so.2(hex addr)
    – Ramesh Khadka
    Aug 20, 2014 at 16:15

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There's not that much wrong. The error message essentially means that you don't have a high enough version (or different version than required) of libc6.

It means the program was compiled against glibc version 2.17, and it requires that version to run, but your system has a different version installed. You'll need to either recompile the program against the correct version of glibc that's on your system, or install a newer version of glibc (the "libc6" package in Debian).

So, you just need to upgrade your libc6 package.

To upgrade it, use these commands in the terminal:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libc6

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