Package: dpkg Version: 1.16.1.2 Severity: important Tags: sid The dpkg tool gives a symbol lookup error, when an attempt is made to remove a package manually using dpkg:
# dpkg -r ibritish-insane (Reading database ... 109559 files and directories currently installed.) Removing ibritish-insane ... /usr/bin/perl: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/perl5/auto/Text/Iconv/Iconv.so: undefined symbol: Perl_Gthr_key_ptr dpkg: error processing ibritish-insane (--remove): subprocess installed post-removal script returned error exit status 127 Errors were encountered while processing: ibritish-insane -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers stable APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (50, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i386) Kernel: Linux 3.0.0-1-486 Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/ash Versions of packages dpkg depends on: ii coreutils 8.5-1 GNU core utilities ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.5-6 high-quality block-sorting file co ii libc6 2.13-18 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libselinux1 2.0.96-1 SELinux runtime shared libraries ii xz-utils 5.0.0-2 XZ-format compression utilities ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime dpkg recommends no packages. Versions of packages dpkg suggests: ii apt 0.8.16~exp8 APT's commandline package manager -- debconf-show failed -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org