> You could try downgrading the two library packages explicitly: > > $ apt-get install libtiff5=1.0.10-4 libidn2-0=2.0.5-1
This is what I tried eventually, and it worked, thanks! > That might result in other errors if doing this breaks versioned > dependencies from other packages, but it's at least a starting point, > and worth trying. It luckily didn’t. > The real questions are A: how you wound up with these newer versions > installed in the first place, and B: whether there are similarly "newer > than anything available in your-configured repos" versions of any > *other* packages installed. For A, well, my installation process is like this: use netinst (first I had tried w/ 10.0, the last time I downloaded 10.2, because who knows, but it persisted), usual stuff, partitioning (UEFI, rest is ext4, one LVM vg which includes / and /home, separate /boot in primary partition), then install, selecting print server, ssh server, and standard packages (bottom three in tasksel screen). Then, I reboot and run a script that basically builds up an ‘apt-get install ...’ command with ~200 pkgs (ends up installing >4k dependencies). It uses usual debian stable repos. No local .debs, no other repos. I don’t even use backports. /etc/apt/preferences is empty. FWIW, the mentioned installation command is as follows: ,---- | apt-get install -y apt-transport-https curl cups-bsd dnsutils equivs | gawk gvfs-bin net-tools netcat-openbsd telnet traceroute bind9utils | moreutils lftp libpam-cgroup libpam-cgfs bridge-utils qemu rsync | openssh-server network-manager smartmontools entr docker.io snapd rar | unrar dunst pasystray i3-wm i3status i3lock xinit libxrandr-dev | network-manager-gnome dbus-x11 pulseaudio pulseaudio-utils pavucontrol | alsa-oss alsa-utils alsamixergui pcmanfm ristretto xbacklight feh | gvfs-backends gvfs-fuse okular cheese gimp gparted libreoffice | libreoffice-gtk3 libreoffice-gnome mpv simple-scan transmission-gtk | vokoscreen redshift-gtk suckless-tools laptop-mode-tools xclip xdotool | xinput libnotify-bin devhelp audacity flameshot xfce4-clipman compton | dconf-editor wmctrl arandr inkscape pdfsam xarchiver lmms libjansson-dev | libpoppler-glib-dev libpoppler-private-dev spek praat python3-matplotlib | python3-numpy python3-scipy python3-matplotlib python3-pandas | python3-sympy python3-nose texlive-full perl-tk pass pv tmux units vim | vorbis-tools vorbisgain w3m w3m-el webalizer whois syncthing libnss-mdns | mailutils mairix mutt mpop msmtp procmail certbot dirmngr youtube-dl | hugo inotify-tools pandoc fbi ddgr hledger jq djvulibre-bin gitit lynx | pwgen gnupg2 qemu-utils qemu-system-x86 build-essential cvs git git-cvs | git-email mercurial python-hglib python-dulwich python-fastimport | python3-pip quilt rcs subversion autoconf autoconf-archive automake | bmake libuniversal-isa-perl libimage-exiftool-perl libswitch-perl | cpanminus liblocal-lib-perl perlbrew python python-pip python3-tk | python3-venv ipython3 python3-notify2 r-base r-recommended r-doc-info | r-cran-tidyverse r-cran-rio r-cran-psych ruby bundler ri | haskell-platform haskell-platform-doc redis-server redis-tools gjs | libgjs-dev gnome-js-common valac valadoc gnuplot feedgnuplot | exuberant-ctags gdb strace make-doc gawk-doc apt-doc autoconf-doc | bash-doc binutils-doc aspell-doc binutils-doc bzip2-doc cvs-doc | debconf-doc diffutils-doc ffmpeg-doc gdb-doc gettext-doc git-doc | glibc-doc gmp-doc gnuplot-doc gnutls-doc graphviz-doc grub-doc | imagemagick-doc libtool-doc m4-doc mailutils-doc make-doc multiboot-doc | ncurses-doc parted-doc pinentry-doc python-apt-doc python-certbot-doc | python-doc python-numpy-doc python-setuptools-doc python3-doc | readline-doc rsyslog-doc sgml-base-doc sharutils-doc sqlite3-doc tar-doc | vim-doc libgtk-3-doc libcairo2-doc libxaw-doc libx11-doc libxcb-doc | libglib2.0-doc iproute2-doc libasound2-doc docker-doc | libreoffice-help-en-us `---- > Tracking those down and fixing them would definitely be possible, but > honestly, if this system was installed so recently you're probably > better off doing the reinstall and hoping whatever error it was doesn't > happen this time. I persistently got the same results after reinstalling twice (botched one trying to use btrfs on root). I suppose it could be a problem with Debian reports. Do you think I should report this as a bug? In any case, I’ll try to reinstall on a VM in a few days, maybe this is a temporary issue w/ package archives, or a packaging bug. -- İ. Göktuğ Kayaalp / @cadadr / <https://www.gkayaalp.com/> pgp: 024C 30DD 597D 142B 49AC 40EB 465C D949 B101 2427