Reposting Mitch's mail. I will do so daily this week. The solution is simple, and worked well for me.
----- >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Dec 1 10:05:41 1998 Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 00:51:06 -0500 From: Mitch Blevins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sanjeev Gupta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Upgraded to unstable, now unstable Sanjeev Gupta wrote: > Folks, > > Have used Debian for critical office uses for over two years now. And > last saturday, being in Office, decided to upgrade from hamm to slink. > (Please do not shoot yet). > > Near the end, I started getting: > > update-menus: error in loading shared libraries > /usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.0-1.so.2: undefined symbol: __register_frame_info > > Hmmm. No problem, will right it self, I thought. The same sort of > library problems had occured when upgrading my Debian/Sparc installtion. > > But no way. Many tools have stopped working (groff, etc); and to top it > all, apt-get and dselect too. So no hope of the next day's updates on > slink righting matters. > [snip] There is another way to do this that I've seen bouncing around, but I don't have the link to it yet. Downgrade your dpkg to 1.4.0.31 and upgrade your libstdc++ if it hasn't been already. Make sure apt is at 0.1.9. You can get a tarball of all these debs from http://blevins.simplenet.com/foobar/ dpkg should still work, although dselect and apt are hosed. After installing the files above, both dselect and apt should work. Other packages may still have problems with the __register_frame_info problem, but they are being recompiled and uploaded so they should work themselves onto your mirror after a few days. Hope this helps, -Mitch ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Sanjeev "Ghane" Gupta Tel: +91(11) 6941831, 6946619 Eurolink Systems Ltd Fax: +91(11) 6943732 New Delhi, India email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eurolink doesn't pay me to speak for it, so I don't Old age is not an accomplishment, nor youth a sin
