Bug#359264: upgrades-reports: Undefine symbol disables upgrade installation and dependent programs

[David Baron <d_baron@012.net.il>]

On Tuesday 28 March 2006 05:40, you wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 04:44:00PM +0200, David Baron wrote:
> > Package: upgrades-reports
> > Version: gnome libraries 2.14.0-1, libpango1.0-common 1.12.0-2
> > Severity: grave
> > Justification: renders package unusable
> >
> > An undefined symbol in the gnome, pango libraries renders the upgrades
> > uninstallable and disables programs now dependent on them:
> >
> > undefined symbol: g_thread_pool_set_sort_function
>
> Please provide the full error message, not just part of it.

OK. Here is the relevant? stuff from apt-get for all the effected failed 
upgrades:
Setting up libgnomevfs2-common (2.14.0-1) ...
gconftool-2: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libgconf-2.so.4: undefined symbol: 
g_slice_alloc0
dpkg: error processing libgnomevfs2-common (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 127
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libgnomevfs2-0:
 libgnomevfs2-0 depends on libgnomevfs2-common (= 2.14.0-1); however:
  Package libgnomevfs2-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing libgnomevfs2-0 (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Setting up libgnome2-common (2.14.0-1) ...
gconftool-2: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libgconf-2.so.4: undefined symbol: 
g_slice_alloc0
dpkg: error processing libgnome2-common (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 127
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libgnome2-0:
 libgnome2-0 depends on libgnomevfs2-0 (>= 2.12.0); however:
  Package libgnomevfs2-0 is not configured yet.
 libgnome2-0 depends on libgnome2-common (= 2.14.0-1); however:
  Package libgnome2-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing libgnome2-0 (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libgoffice-1-2:
 libgoffice-1-2 depends on libgnome2-0 (>= 2.8.0); however:
  Package libgnome2-0 is not configured yet.
 libgoffice-1-2 depends on libgnomevfs2-0 (>= 2.13.92); however:
  Package libgnomevfs2-0 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing libgoffice-1-2 (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of gnumeric:
 gnumeric depends on libgnome2-0 (>= 2.8.0); however:
  Package libgnome2-0 is not configured yet.
 gnumeric depends on libgnomevfs2-0 (>= 2.13.92); however:
  Package libgnomevfs2-0 is not configured yet.
 gnumeric depends on libgoffice-1-2 (>= 0.2.1); however:
  Package libgoffice-1-2 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing gnumeric (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Setting up libpango1.0-common (1.12.0-2) ...
Updating the modules list for Pango-1.5.0.../usr/bin/pango-querymodules: 
symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libpango-1.0.so.0: undefined symbol: 
g_intern_static_string
dpkg: error processing libpango1.0-common (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 127