Re: [PLUG] Weird APT error message

[Mike Leone <turgon@mike-leone.com>]

Stephen Gran (steve@lobefin.net) had this to say on 11/16/02 at 10:44: 
> On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 10:44:00PM -0500, Michael Leone said:
> > So what do we make of this:
> 
> <snip apt segfaulting>
> 
> You've been bitten by a bad c++ library in unstable.  The temporary fix
> is to make a symlink in /usr/lib.  Sadly, I can't remeber which symlink
> is broken, but it's one of:
> libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2
> libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3
> libstdc++.so.3
> (I think it's one of the first two)

root@minas-aran:/usr/lib# ls -la libstdc*
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root       256240 2000-02-19 10:41 libstdc++-2-libc6.1-1-2.9.0.so
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root       270280 2000-07-07 06:01 libstdc++-3-libc6.1-2-2.10.0.so
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root       444022 2002-09-23 18:24 libstdc++-3-libc6.2-2-2.10.0.a
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root       288444 2002-09-23 18:24 libstdc++-3-libc6.2-2-2.10.0.so
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           30 2002-03-30 17:45 libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2 -> libstdc++-2-libc6.1-1-2.9.0.so
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           31 2002-03-31 00:16 libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3 -> libstdc++-3-libc6.1-2-2.10.0.so
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           30 2002-09-29 20:56 libstdc++-libc6.2-2.a.3 -> libstdc++-3-libc6.2-2-2.10.0.a
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           31 2002-09-29 20:55 libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 -> libstdc++-3-libc6.2-2-2.10.0.so
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           18 2002-09-29 20:56 libstdc++.so.3 -> libstdc++.so.3.0.4
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root       569404 2002-09-21 15:10 libstdc++.so.3.0.4

> If you look around in /usr/lib, you'll notice that one of these is
> missing, and there is instead a symlink of a similar name, but missing
> the '-'.  Nice huh, total breakage of all c++ apps because of a typo in

I'm not seeing that ... Am I just overlooking something?

> postinst.  Once you recreate the proper symlink, upgrade.  The fix is
> now in unstable.  Don't however, upgrade bonobo-activation if you want
> GNOME to start )^: - yet another mysterious break, but this one sounds
> like it's not the maintainer, but an upstream problem.

I don't use GNOME, so no big deal there, atho I do sometimes use some GNOME
programs, such as evolution.

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