Stephen Gran on Sat, 16 Nov 2002 14:38:09 -0500


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Re: [PLUG] Weird APT error message


On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 01:58:43PM -0500, Mike Leone said:
> 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?

Hmmm . . . no, I'm not seeing the problem on your box.  This is the
thread I was referring to, it might be of some help:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2002/debian-devel-200211/msg01041.html

> > 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.
That shouldn't be a problem, unless evolution needs bonobo for session
management (don't know - I use mutt).
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