I performed another upgrade with the apt-clone file from this bug and editing sources.list from xenial to bionic but this time I first installed the version of libc6.
Start-Date: 2018-05-01 12:29:37 Commandline: apt-get install libc6 Requested-By: bdmurray (1000) Upgrade: libc6-dbg:amd64 (2.23-0ubuntu10, 2.27-3ubuntu1), libc6-dev:amd64 (2.23-0ubuntu10, 2.27-3ubuntu1), libc6:amd64 (2.23-0ubuntu10, 2.27-3ubuntu1), locales:amd64 (2.23-0ubuntu10, 2.27-3ubuntu1), libc-bin:amd64 (2.23-0ubuntu10, 2.27-3ubuntu1), libc6-i386:amd64 (2.23-0ubuntu10, 2.27-3ubuntu1), libc-dev-bin:amd64 (2.23-0ubuntu10, 2.27-3ubuntu1) End-Date: 2018-05-01 12:29:56
Again I did not encounter the bug when upgrading via this method.
I performed another upgrade with the apt-clone file from this bug and editing sources.list from xenial to bionic but this time I first installed the version of libc6.
Start-Date: 2018-05-01 12:29:37
Commandline: apt-get install libc6
Requested-By: bdmurray (1000)
Upgrade: libc6-dbg:amd64 (2.23-0ubuntu10, 2.27-3ubuntu1), libc6-dev:amd64 (2.23-0ubuntu10, 2.27-3ubuntu1), libc6:amd64 (2.23-0ubuntu10, 2.27-3ubuntu1), locales:amd64 (2.23-0ubuntu10, 2.27-3ubuntu1), libc-bin:amd64 (2.23-0ubuntu10, 2.27-3ubuntu1), libc6-i386:amd64 (2.23-0ubuntu10, 2.27-3ubuntu1), libc-dev-bin:amd64 (2.23-0ubuntu10, 2.27-3ubuntu1)
End-Date: 2018-05-01 12:29:56
Again I did not encounter the bug when upgrading via this method.