Hi all, I just upgraded a box from feisty to gutsy. Everything seemed broken, update-manager was crashing, dpkg --configure -a was bailing out for too many errors, apt-get -f install asked me to run dpkg --configure -a, trying to configure packages manually one by one resulted in finding "half-installed" packages.
Then I started crying and there was no Mommy with me :) Then I discovered that libxml2 was getting an error about an undefined symbol in libz. In #ubuntu+1, kind people told me to check if I had and old copy of libz in /usr/local, and it was the case. Now I had this system running from edgy, it's a desktop machine which also serves an internal website, and it can happen to have libraries in /usr/local and forget about those (also, I have other users who are admins). Similar issues might happen if one has something in /usr/local/bin, so wouldn't it be wise to ask, in the upgrade program, if user wants to temporarily rename /usr/local to /usr/local.upgraded during upgrade, so things are safer? Or, similarly to what is done for sources.list, perhaps /usr/local/lib could be removed from the library path, and /usr/local/bin from the executable path. I hope something like this will make its way in hardy. Vincenzo -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
