On Mon, 27 Sep 1999 at 22:26, Raphael Hertzog wrote about "libndbm.so":
> First, there was absolutely no need for a severity grave ! This bug if it > exists would cause no major problem (data loss and so on). Please justifiy > the severity of the bug since bugs > important will be listed as release > critical... As far as I understand things, having a missing library has the potential for data-loss. I'll accept your opinion though as it's definitely more expert than mine. > And now I have the latest potato and I don't have your problem : I said that I had manually installed the unstable (potato) version -- IOW, I didn't upgrade the whole system, just the unstable version and anything it required and suggested. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ls -la /usr/lib/libndbm.so > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Sep 26 21:32 /usr/lib/libndbm.so -> > libdb.so This above part I didn't have done. > There is no /lib/libndbm.so and no /lib/libndbm-2.1.2.so ... those files > don't exist in Debian potato at all : Right, but I believe /lib/libndbm.so existed in slink. > $ dpkg -S /lib/libndbm.so dpkg: /lib/libndbm.so not found. > $ dpkg -l '*db*' | grep ^ii ii cddb 2.3-5 CD DataBase support tools ii libdb2 2.4.14-1 The Berkeley database routines (run-time fil ii libgdbmg1 1.7.3-25 GNU dbm database routines (runtime version). ii libmldbm-perl 2.00-1 MLDBM perl module ii man-db 2.3.10-69FIX.1 Display the on-line manual. > $ dpkg -l libc6-dev This could be the problem, as this is still the slink version. Regardless, the error occurred as a result of upgrading libc6 package to unstable without upgrading libc6-dev -- and thus that should be fixed. Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge | 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 +++-===============-==============-============================================ ii libc6-dev 2.0.7.19981211 GNU C Library: Development libraries and hea Thanks, -- Brock Rozen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Director of Technical Services (410) 602-1350 Project Genesis http://www.torah.org/
