I’m also trying to install ICE 3.4.2 vía deb on Ubuntu 10.04, and it fails as mentioned above:

mysqld: relocation error: /lib/libnss_compat.so.2: symbol strcmp, version GLIBC_2.2.5 not defined in file libc.so.6 with link time reference

are there any updates on this?

I got it working. All I did was

sudo apt-get install nscd
# open /etc/nscd.conf with your $EDITOR
# find following line:
#      enable-cache         hosts       no
# change “no” to “yes”
# save & exit the editor
sudo service nscd restart

After this just reinstalled and it gives no errors.