"Howard S. Ostrowsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> But I recklessly went on to install
> perl-suid_5.004.02-1.deb and perl-debug_5.004.02-1.deb. OOPS.
Neither of these packages installs anything you use normally. I can't
see why they would make any difference.
> Now, most important programs fail to start. I get the message:
> "error loading shared libraries
> /usr/lib/libgnumalloc.so.5: undefined symbol:
> __default_morecore_init"
> This happens with (for example) startx, perl, and (worst of all) dpkg.
> Since dpkg is broke, I can't try to uninstall things.
libgnumalloc is a libc5 library, so it shouldn't be getting used if
you've installed libc6 versions of perl and dpkg. What does
"ldd /usr/bin/dpkg" say? Are you using LD_PRELOAD in your
environment so badly written programs don't crash as often? Can you
use "strace dpkg -h" and see what happens just before it crashes?
Maybe something didn't install some libraries quite right, so try
"ldconfig" as root.
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