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Re: Mozilla 1.1. plugin failure



On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 09:58:05AM -0800, Jim Hickstein wrote:
> I run unstable on x86.  Not 15 minutes ago, I did my usual why-the-hell-not 
> "apt-get update" and "apt-get dist-upgrade".  Worked OK.  Rebooted.
> 
> Then mozilla wouldn't run.  It was (buried deep inside) complaining about 
> not finding libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3.
> 
> Now, /usr/lib/libstdc++libc6.2-2.so.3 (note no hyphen) is present.  So I 
> made a symlink, just to see, and it all worked.  Another correspondent in 
> this list suggested installing the package "libstdc++2.9-glibc2.1"  That is 
> already installed.
> 
> It seems like it's just a typo somewhere, dropping (or adding) the hyphen 
> in the name of the library.  (It worked yesterday.)
> 
> Is it?

It was a bug in that version of libstdc++; the maintainer just made a
typo in the name of the symlink.  Fixed versions went up with hours,
fortunately.  You sure picked a bad time to upgrade your sid machine, I
can't even remember the last time something broke this badly...

-rob

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