On Sat, Feb 07, 2009 at 04:41:42PM -0500, Simon Raven wrote: > stupid PEBKAC. /lib/libdl* was symlinked BADLY, to an old version from > 2005, making most stuff using dlopen() and futexes crash horribly.
OK, thanks. As the original report wasn't reproducible and this one turned out not to be a fault in Perl, I'm closing the bug. Cc'ing debian-powerpc so nobody loses time over this. > As such, I made a foreign lenny debootstrap to compare notes, so to > speak, and thus found the culprit, and fixed the symlink. Suggestion: > maybe check the files, including symlinks, to make sure they're OK, > during upgrades like this. Probably too much to ask, since how does > say aptitude know if you've switched versions? There's no real > meta-data like that AFAIK. Anyway, just a thought. Thanks for your > attention, and have a good day. The debsums package has a cron job for something like that. Not sure if it follows symlinks or not. -- Niko Tyni nt...@debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
