Re: Can't dselect or apt !!

[Mitch Blevins]

Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote:
>   Hi Debian users,
>   today I run dselect with apt method to upgrade my box to slink and after
> quit dselect, I can't run neither dselect neither apt again.
>   There is a error:
> 
>   jaca:~# dselect
>   dselect: error in loading shared libraries
>   /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.2.8: undefined symbol: __register_frame_info
> 
>   jaca:~# apt-get clean
>   apt-get: error in loading shared libraries
>   /usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.0-1.so.2: undefined symbol: 
> __register_frame_info
> 
>   I did a dpkg -S and discovered that the package with this library is:
>   jaca:~# dpkg -S libstdc++-libc6.0-1.so.2 | more
> 
>   How I can repair this now?
>   Have a nice day,Paulo Henrique

I just had this problem.  Downgrade dpkg and apt to the versions in frozen.
See recent discussion on debian-devel for more...

-Mitch

RE: Can't dselect or apt !!

[Christian Lavoie]

> I just had this problem.  Downgrade dpkg and apt to the versions
> in frozen.
> See recent discussion on debian-devel for more...
>
> -Mitch

I recently 'upgraded' my system from hamm to potato. Unfortunately, I was
targeting slink and much of the system is down right now. Where can I find
some info on mass-downgrading?