Josselin Mouette wrote: >
This is certainly caused by a locally installed, older version of glib.
I have enough of these stupid bug reports. Why do users keep installing local versions just to fuck up their system?
I understand your irritation, but look below:
gutow:/home/gutow# dpkg -l glib* Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Description +++-==============-==============-============================================ un glibc <none> (no description available) un glibc-2.3.2.ds <none> (no description available) ii glibc-doc 2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Documentation un glibc-pic <none> (no description available) un glibc2 <none> (no description available) un glibcdoc <none> (no description available) gutow:/home/gutow#
so your guess is clearly incorrect. My system is clean. It is sarge, installed from scratch and later upgraded many times, always using 'apt-get' mechanism. Don't blame the users, please. The troubles started after one of such upgrades, but went unnoticed for some time (I didn't know that some applications no longer start). Trying to install glibc or glibc2 (is that what you meant as on older version of glib?) produces the following messages:
gutow:/home/gutow# apt-get -s install glibc Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Package glibc is not available, but is referred to by another package. This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is only available from another source E: Package glibc has no installation candidate gutow:/home/gutow# apt-get -s install glibc2 Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Package glibc2 is not available, but is referred to by another package. This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is only available from another source However the following packages replace it: locales E: Package glibc2 has no installation candidate
Therefore there IS a bug somewhere.
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