Re: Big Debian mess -- solved

[Kurt Starsinic <kstar@isinet.com>]

Chris Fearnley wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 01, 1998 at 03:18:49PM -0500, Kurt Starsinic wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> >     I've been running the `potato' distribution, and I've recently (past two
> > days) run into a crippling problem on two different machines.  `apt-get
> > upgrade'
> > fails midway through, and then many programs fail with this message:
> >
> > <insert program name here>: error in loading shared libraries
> > /usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.0-1.so.2: undefined symbol: __register_frame_info
> 
> See if there is a libstd* in oldlibs.  That might fix it.  I saw some
> discussion on libstdc++ library problems.  http://www.debian.org has a
> not-too-easy to search archive.

    I found the solution at Debian's German site.  The thing to do is to
upgrade to a very-very-new libstdc++2.9.  FYI, the README and the tarfile
with all necessary packages are at:

    http://blevins.simplenet.com/foobar/

    Thanks.

    Peace,
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