Hi Bill, On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 06:19:48PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > Do you have experience with this bug, and do you think a work-around > should be mentionned in the release notes ? It sounds familiar, but I thought this was a bug that got fixed already. :/ If it's still around, then I certainly agree it ought to be documented in the release notes. The original bug report on this seems to have been bug #278417, reported fixed in debconf 1.4.30.9. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer > On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 01:26:27PM +0100, pmaydell@chiark.greenend.org.uk wrote: > > When upgrading my woody system to sarge (following the procedure > > recommended by the release notes) it fell over like this: > > > > [...] > > Selecting previously deselected package libxft2. > > Unpacking libxft2 (from .../libxft2_2.1.7-1_i386.deb) ... > > Selecting previously deselected package libxi6. > > Unpacking libxi6 (from .../libxi6_4.3.0.dfsg.1-14_i386.deb) ... > > Selecting previously deselected package libxt6. > > Unpacking libxt6 (from .../libxt6_4.3.0.dfsg.1-14_i386.deb) ... > > /usr/bin/perl: relocation error: /usr/lib/perl5/auto/Text/Iconv/Iconv.so: undefined symbol: Perl_Gthr_key_ptr > > dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libxt6_4.3.0.dfsg.1-14_i386.deb (--unpack): > > subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 127 > > [...] > > > > and then of course everything else in that dpkg run that was > > depending on libxt6 failed to configure either. > > > > Judging from the archives this is bug 278417. It doesn't seem to be easy to > > just install the fixed version of debconf early because it has all sorts of > > dependencies, so I think the easiest thing is probably to use the workaround > > suggested in that bug of setting PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 when running aptitude. It > > worked for me, anyway. Since that bug has been closed and archived I'm > > filing this bug to say that you need to update the release notes. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-REQUEST@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org
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