Re: /usr/bin/perl: relocation error: /usr/lib/perl5/auto/DBI/DBi.so: undefined symbol: Perl_Gthr_key_ptr

[Stephen Quinney <stephen@jadevine.org.uk>]

On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 05:27:13PM +0600, Tanveer Hasan wrote:
> Dear List,
> 
> I'm a novice in perl programming.  In one of my project, I used
> perlDBI to interface with a postGRE database.  It was okay earlier.
> We put a hold on that project for around 4/5 months.  I don't
> know whether someone upgraded perl or DBI.  While running the
> script again, I have got the following error.
> 
> /usr/bin/perl: relocation error: /usr/lib/perl5/auto/DBI/DBi.so:
> undefined symbol: Perl_Gthr_key_ptr
> 
> paq:~#dpkg -l perl\* | grep ^i
> shows all are of same version 5.6.1-7
> paq:~#dpkg -l libdbi-perl | grep ^i
> version is 1.41-1

Can you tell me what Debian system you are running? Woody, sarge? 

In woody/stable the expected versions are:

perl 5.6.1-8.7
libdbi-perl 1.21-2

In sarge/testing the current newest versions are:

perl 5.8.4-2.2
libdbi-perl 1.43-1

Are you using backported packages that you got from an unofficial
source? If so one of those might be causing your problems.

Stephen Quinney