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Re: Upgrade stable -> testing -- with errors



On 2011-02-02 18:42 +0100, Brad Alexander wrote:

> I may have just shot myself in the foot, but I decided to go ahead and
> upgrade my wife's machine. It was running stable (lenny atm) and I
> wanted to get it to testing. Its running trinity as well.
>
> So I updated the apt-conf to
>
> APT::Default-Release "testing";
>
> (My base sources.list includes links for all three releases), updated
> the trinity list from the lenny one to the squeeze one (the ppa
> format), and I ran aptitude update; aptitude full-upgrade.
>
> Things went well for about 30 minutes, then crashed. Now I am getting
>
> [root@galaxy archives]# dpkg --configure -a

This might not work, "apt-get -f install" would be a better try to fix
things up.

> Setting up menu (2.1.41) ...
> update-menus: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6: undefined
> symbol: _ZNSt8messagesIcE2idE, version GLIBCXX_3.4

Which version of libstdc++6 is installed on your system?

> dpkg: error processing menu (--configure):
>  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 127
> Setting up python2.6 (2.6.6-8+b1) ...
> update-menus: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6: undefined
> symbol: _ZNSt8messagesIcE2idE, version GLIBCXX_3.4
> dpkg: error processing python2.6 (--configure):
>  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 127
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libpython2.6:
>  libpython2.6 depends on python2.6 (= 2.6.6-8+b1); however:
>   Package python2.6 is not configured yet.
> dpkg: error processing libpython2.6 (--configure):
>  dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  menu
>  python2.6
>  libpython2.6
>
> and I can't get past the undefined symbol. Can anyone suggest what I
> need to get this done?

Try "apt-get -f install".  If that does not work, manually unpack the
libstdc++6 package from squeeze.

> Especially since I didn't warn my wife what I was doing?

If everything else fails, you may have to consult a marriage
counselor. ;-)

Sven


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