On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 03:59:16PM -0500, charlie derr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was
heard to say:
> Daniel Burrows wrote:
>> It would be interesting to know what ldd /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2 says.
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/cache/apt$ ldd /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2
> linux-gate.so.1 => (0xb7fb7000)
> libdl.so.2 => /lib/i686/cmov/libdl.so.2 (0xb7e7e000)
> libz.so.1 => /usr/local/lib/libz.so.1 (0xb7e6a000)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
You may not know it's there, but you have a local version of libz.so.1
that isn't binary-compatible with the Debian-supplied libz. You're
probably better off just deleting this (or moving it to some other name,
like was-libz.1); as it is, you risk random breakage and security holes
(because you probably aren't getting security updates for your local
version of the library).
You may want to check if anything else has been placed in
/usr/local/bin or /usr/local/lib, and what the timestamps are (run
"ls -l /usr/local/bin /usr/local/lib"), as any other files in there
will override the system libraries.
>> Erk. That means something is hosed in your apt cache. I would guess
>> this isn't related to your earlier problems, but it would be interesting
>> to know whether running "aptitude update" fixes this problem,
>
> it hasn't yet (subsequent upgrades/removals won't all succeed (all of the
> gnome related stuff is foobared)) -- this is why i've
Huh, interesting.
> delete:~# apt-cache showpkg desktop-base shared-mime-info
> Package: desktop-base
> Versions:
> 4.0.4(/var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.us.debian.org_debian_dists_unstable_main_binary-i386_Packages)
> 4.0.3(/var/lib/dpkg/status)
OK, apt believes that version 4.0.4 is available from unstable. But
when it goes to actually install that version, it apparently blows up,
complaining that no file in the archive actually provides version 4.0.4.
At least, that's how I interpret that message
(pkgAcqArchive::pkgAcqArchive generates it if QueueNext
fails)...although from the source it looks like there are a few other
things it could be caused by, such as unusual trust errors. You didn't
mention trust problems, though, so I assume that's not what's happening.
I wonder what these commands will show:
grep -A 1000 "^Package: desktop-base$"
/var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.us.debian.org_debian_dists_unstable_main_binary-i386_Packages
| sed '/^$/,$d'
apt-cache policy desktop-base
apt-get -s install desktop-base
apt-get -s install desktop-base=4.0.4
aptitude -s install desktop-base=4.0.4
aptitude -vvvv show desktop-base
Actually, if you have a way to post large files on the internet, it
would be interesting if you could run
"aptitude-create-state-bundle snapshot.tar.bz2" and then let me know how
to get access to it; then I might be able to reproduce your problems
here and find out exactly what's happening.
Daniel
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