Re: relocation error: and segmentation fault

[Johann Klammer <klammerr@aon.at>]

Dennis Wicks wrote:
> Sorry!! I clicked the wrong icon and sent the previous message by mistake!)
>
> I was running aptitude and it canceled for some reason. Now
> I am getting
>
> > relocation error: /lib/libproc-3.2.7.so: symbol memset, version
> > GLIBC_2.0 not defined in file libc.so.6 with link time reference
>
> and also
>
> > symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6:
> > undefined symbol: _ZNSt8messagesIcE2idE, version GLIBCXX_3.4
>
> and also segmentation fault.
>
> This happens when I try to do something in a console window or a
> gnome-terminal window. And nothing else happens. I am also getting a ton
> of segmentation fault message in my f1 console session.
>
> I'm afraid to try shutting down and restarting because I'm fearful that
> it may not even come up!

Yes, that's _very_ likely.

> Any suggestions? Oh yes, aptitude, apt-get and dpkg won't start.

I guess you've lost some important library.
The easiest way would be to use a live distro on a cdrom or USB stick 
and use that to mount your system partitions and install the missing 
packages.
downloaded packages may still be in /var/cache/apt.
/var/log/apt/history might tell you what went wrong.