On Sun, Dec 30, 2007 at 05:28:48PM -0500, charlie derr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > It's been a while, but I just attempted a massive upgrade (executing > "aptitude upgrade") and ended up with: > > Errors were encountered while processing:
The interesting thing is why these packages failed, which would be in the output preceding the list of failed packages. > Unpacking replacement desktop-base ... > gconftool-2: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2: undefined symbol: > gzopen64 > dpkg: warning - old post-removal script returned error exit status 127 > dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ... > gconftool-2: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2: undefined symbol: > gzopen64 > dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/desktop-base_4.0.4_all.deb > (--unpack): It's pretty clear from that that your problem is that your version of libxml2 is failing to load because it doesn't contain gzopen64. It would be interesting to know what ldd /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2 says. Some hits on Google suggest that people get this problem when they have another version of libz hanging out in $LD_LIBRARY_PATH (e.g., in /usr/local/lib or /lib). > The above is in response to apt-get -f install (what used to work in the > past for fixing issues, maybe that's my mistake?) That ought to work fine. > If I try to upgrade one of those packages individually with aptitude > install shared-mime-info then the below happens: > > The following packages will be upgraded: > gnome-session libgnome2-common libgnomevfs2-common shared-mime-info > 4 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 795 not upgraded. > Need to get 0B/2706kB of archives. After unpacking 1461kB will be used. > Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] y > Writing extended state information... Error! > E: I wasn't able to locate file for the desktop-base package. This might mean > you need to manually fix this package. > E: Couldn't lock list directory..are you root? Erk. That means something is hosed in your apt cache. I would guess this isn't related to your earlier problems, but it would be interesting to know whether running "aptitude update" fixes this problem, and to see the output of "apt-cache showpkg desktop-base". Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
