Dear Release team, Do you have experience with this bug, and do you think a work-around should be mentionned in the release notes ?
Cheers, Bill. On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 01:26:27PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > When upgrading my woody system to sarge (following the procedure > recommended by the release notes) it fell over like this: > > [...] > Selecting previously deselected package libxft2. > Unpacking libxft2 (from .../libxft2_2.1.7-1_i386.deb) ... > Selecting previously deselected package libxi6. > Unpacking libxi6 (from .../libxi6_4.3.0.dfsg.1-14_i386.deb) ... > Selecting previously deselected package libxt6. > Unpacking libxt6 (from .../libxt6_4.3.0.dfsg.1-14_i386.deb) ... > /usr/bin/perl: relocation error: /usr/lib/perl5/auto/Text/Iconv/Iconv.so: > undefined symbol: Perl_Gthr_key_ptr > dpkg: error processing > /var/cache/apt/archives/libxt6_4.3.0.dfsg.1-14_i386.deb (--unpack): > subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 127 > [...] > > and then of course everything else in that dpkg run that was > depending on libxt6 failed to configure either. > > Judging from the archives this is bug 278417. It doesn't seem to be easy to > just install the fixed version of debconf early because it has all sorts of > dependencies, so I think the easiest thing is probably to use the workaround > suggested in that bug of setting PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 when running aptitude. It > worked for me, anyway. Since that bug has been closed and archived I'm > filing this bug to say that you need to update the release notes. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
