unstable apt upgrade failed

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Hi there,

When I try to apt to upgrade unstable, it failed. Any comments:

lmwang@laptop:~$ sudo apt-get update
Get:1 http://debian.ustc.edu.cn unstable Release.gpg [189B]
Get:2 http://debian.ustc.edu.cn testing Release.gpg [189B]
Get:3 http://debian.ustc.edu.cn stable Release.gpg [189B]
Ign http://debian.ustc.edu.cn unstable Release.gpg
Get:4 http://debian.ustc.edu.cn unstable Release [67.1kB]
Get:5 http://debian.ustc.edu.cn testing Release [62.9kB]
...
Fetched 289kB in 29s (9796B/s)
Reading package lists... Done
lmwang@laptop:~$ sudo apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
libc6-dev: Depends: libc6 (= 2.3.6.ds1-4) but 2.3.6-19 is installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.
lmwang@laptop:~$ sudo apt-get upgrade -f
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
netbase openoffice.org openoffice.org-base openoffice.org-calc
openoffice.org-core openoffice.org-draw
openoffice.org-impress openoffice.org-math openoffice.org-writer python
python-qt3 tellico whiptail
The following packages will be upgraded:
acpitool autoconf automake1.8 base-files bzip2 cpp-4.1 cron cupsys
cupsys-bsd cupsys-client cupsys-common cvs
emacs-snapshot emacs-snapshot-bin-common emacs-snapshot-common
emacs-snapshot-el fastjar firefox g++-4.1 gaim-data
gcc-4.1 gcc-4.1-base gettext gettext-base gnuplot gnuplot-nox gnuplot-x11
gs-esp hal ifupdown iptables jikes
libart2-ruby libasn1-6-heimdal libatk1-ruby libbz2-1.0 libc6 libc6-i686
libcairo-directfb2 libcairo2 libchm1
libcupsimage2 libcupsys2 libcupsys2-gnutls10 libdb4.4 libgcc1 libgconf2-ruby
libgl1-mesa-glx libglib2-ruby libglu1-mesa
libgssapi4-heimdal libgutenprint2 libhal-storage1 libhal1 libkcal2b
libkdepim1a libkrb5-17-heimdal libkrb53 libktnef1
liblircclient0 libnspr4-0d libnss3-0d libpango1.0-0 libpango1.0-common
libpaper-utils libpaper1 libpci2 libqt3-mt
libroken16-heimdal libslang2 libsnmp-base libsnmp9 libssp0 libstdc++6
libstdc++6-4.1-dev libvolume-id0 libwrap0
libwxbase2.6-0 libwxgtk2.6-0 libxaw7 libxcursor1 libxdamage1 libxext-dev
libxext6 libxfont1 libxi6 libxkbfile1
libxkbui1 libxslt1.1 linux-kernel-headers locales lsb-base manpages msmtp
openoffice.org-common
openoffice.org-java-common openoffice.org-l10n-en-us passwd pciutils
pkg-config tcpd tex-common ttf-opensymbol udev
x-dev x11proto-core-dev x11proto-kb-dev xchm xfonts-encodings xnest
xserver-xorg-core xvnc4viewer
112 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 13 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 251kB/130MB of archives.
After unpacking 254kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Get:1 ftp://debian.ustc.edu.cn unstable/main base-files 3.1.16 [34.4kB]
Get:2 ftp://debian.ustc.edu.cn unstable/main libpaper1 1.1.20 [20.4kB]
Get:3 ftp://debian.ustc.edu.cn unstable/main libpaper-utils 1.1.20 [17.3kB]
Get:4 ftp://debian.ustc.edu.cn unstable/main libxaw7 1:1.0.2-4 [179kB]
Fetched 251kB in 4s (62.2kB/s)
Extracting templates from packages: 100%
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 75339 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace libc6 2.3.6-19 (using .../libc6_2.3.6.ds1-4_i386.deb) ...
Matching libraries: /usr/lib/libpthread.so.20

A copy of glibc was found in an unexpected directory.
It is not safe to upgrade the C library in this situation;
please remove that copy of the C library and try again.
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.3.6.ds1-4_i386.deb
(--unpack):
subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.3.6.ds1-4_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
lmwang@laptop:~$


Thanks,
Limin

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