On 2007-01-06, Mertens Bram wrote: > On 2006-12-16, rocky wrote: > > Hey List, > > > > I'm using Debian Sid in my Dell Inspiron 2200 laptop. Recently after I > > aptitude update and aptitude upgrade I got the following error. > > aptitude: symbol lookup error: aptitude: undefined symbol: > > _ZN9pkgPolicyD2Ev > > It has been there for several days. Did any of you come across the same > > problem? Can any of your give me some hint on this please? > > I'm encountering the same problem on my Toshiba Satellite Pro laptop > as well. Aptitude works fine on my other systems (using the same > version: 0.4.4-1). > > I found the following message [1] mentioning a dependency on shlibs but > the bug report it points to [2] does not contain much information. > > I installed d-shlibs in an attempt to resolve the issue but it didn't > help. > > Strangely I get this error at the moment when I try to update the > package list when I use aptitude interactively but not when I run > aptitude update from the command line. > > However when I run aptitude keep-all I do get the error after it has > written the extended state information. > > 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 613 not > upgraded. > Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used. > Writing extended state information... Done > aptitude: symbol lookup error: aptitude: undefined symbol: > _ZN9pkgPolicyD2Ev > > The exit code is 127 by the way. > > Any ideas on how to trouble-shoot or resolve this? In the mean time > I'll try updating the system using apt-get. Apt-get is still working > fine. > > Regards > > [1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.apt.devel/9589 > [2] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=396938
FYI: The problem was solved by upgrading apt itself, I updated various apt-utilities yesterday but apprantely forgot apt itself. After apt-get install apt aptitude works fine again! Hope this helps. Bram -- # Mertens Bram "M8ram" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux User #349737 # # debian testing kernel 2.6.18-3-686 i686 1024MB RAM # # 15:29:49 up 4 days, 6:24, 3 users, load average: 0.52, 0.21, 0.07 # -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
