Package: aptitude Version: 0.8.11-3 Severity: important Tags: d-i Dear Maintainer,
** IMPORTANT ** current report was not created on affected system, so do not take into account "bugreport" automatic attached informations. ** /IMPORTANT ** Issue occure into a Debian Testing system. I've to work on a not up-to-date system (about 1200 packages to update), so I start to first update "aptitude" itself: # aptitude install aptitude This work fine. But after, for any "aptitude" command, this fail with: aptitude: symbol lookup error: aptitude: undefined symbol: _ZN6Xapian4MSetC1EOS0_ Issue is that "aptitude" depends on "libxapian30", who was installed on the past, but NOT upgraded by last "aptitude install aptitude" OLD installed package: ii libxapian30:amd64 1.4.3-2 amd64 Search engine library UP-TO-DATE package: ii libxapian30:amd64 1.4.7-2 amd64 Search engine library In order to fix issue, I've to use "apt" to upgrade "libxapian30": # apt-get install libxapian30 <log> 2018-10-02 21:31:15 upgrade libxapian30:amd64 1.4.3-2 1.4.7-2 2018-10-02 21:31:15 status half-configured libxapian30:amd64 1.4.3-2 2018-10-02 21:31:15 status unpacked libxapian30:amd64 1.4.3-2 2018-10-02 21:31:15 status half-installed libxapian30:amd64 1.4.3-2 2018-10-02 21:31:15 status half-installed libxapian30:amd64 1.4.3-2 2018-10-02 21:31:16 status unpacked libxapian30:amd64 1.4.7-2 2018-10-02 21:31:16 status unpacked libxapian30:amd64 1.4.7-2 2018-10-02 21:31:16 configure libxapian30:amd64 1.4.7-2 <aucune> 2018-10-02 21:31:16 status unpacked libxapian30:amd64 1.4.7-2 2018-10-02 21:31:16 status half-configured libxapian30:amd64 1.4.7-2 2018-10-02 21:31:16 status installed libxapian30:amd64 1.4.7-2 </log> Issue fixed, no more "undefined symbol" issue ! In order to definitively fix issue, "aptitude" package dependancies should be modified: - Currently, we have: Dépend: [...], libxapian30 - Now, we should have something like: Dépend: [...], libxapian30 (>=1.4.7-2) Thanks for your help ! Best regards, Olivier -- Package-specific info: Terminal: xterm-256color $DISPLAY is set. which aptitude: /usr/bin/aptitude aptitude version information: aptitude 0.8.11 Compiler: g++ 8.2.0 Compiled against: apt version 5.0.2 NCurses version 6.1 libsigc++ version: 2.10.0 Gtk+ support disabled. Qt support disabled. Current library versions: NCurses version: ncurses 6.1.20180714 cwidget version: 0.5.17 Apt version: 5.0.2 aptitude linkage: linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007ffdfc3f0000) libapt-pkg.so.5.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.5.0 (0x00007fc80f377000) libncursesw.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.6 (0x00007fc80f33d000) libtinfo.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.6 (0x00007fc80f30f000) libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0x00007fc80f306000) libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcwidget.so.3 (0x00007fc80f200000) libsqlite3.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsqlite3.so.0 (0x00007fc80f0e0000) libboost_iostreams.so.1.62.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_iostreams.so.1.62.0 (0x00007fc80f0c1000) libboost_system.so.1.62.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_system.so.1.62.0 (0x00007fc80f0bc000) libxapian.so.30 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxapian.so.30 (0x00007fc80ee96000) libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007fc80ee75000) libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007fc80ecf2000) libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007fc80eb5e000) libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007fc80eb42000) libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007fc80e985000) libresolv.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libresolv.so.2 (0x00007fc80e96c000) libz.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0x00007fc80e74e000) libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbz2.so.1.0 (0x00007fc80e73b000) liblzma.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblzma.so.5 (0x00007fc80e515000) liblz4.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblz4.so.1 (0x00007fc80e2f6000) libzstd.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libzstd.so.1 (0x00007fc80e25b000) libudev.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libudev.so.1 (0x00007fc80e23b000) /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007fc80f9be000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x00007fc80e236000) librt.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 (0x00007fc80e22c000) libuuid.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1 (0x00007fc80e221000) -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (800, 'stable'), (90, 'unstable'), (40, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.18.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE= (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages aptitude depends on: ii aptitude-common 0.8.11-3 ii libapt-pkg5.0 1.7.0~rc2 ii libboost-iostreams1.62.0 1.62.0+dfsg-10 ii libboost-system1.62.0 1.62.0+dfsg-10 ii libc6 2.27-6 ii libcwidget3v5 0.5.17-11 ii libgcc1 1:8.2.0-7 ii libncursesw6 6.1+20180714-1 ii libsigc++-2.0-0v5 2.10.0-2.1 ii libsqlite3-0 3.25.2-1 ii libstdc++6 8.2.0-7 ii libtinfo6 6.1+20180714-1 ii libxapian30 1.4.7-2 Versions of packages aptitude recommends: ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-12 ii sensible-utils 0.0.12 Versions of packages aptitude suggests: pn apt-xapian-index <none> pn aptitude-doc-en | aptitude-doc <none> pn debtags <none> ii tasksel 3.46 -- no debconf information