Argh. For some reason which I can NOT explain. my libuuid.so.1 symlink was not pointing to libuuid.so.1.3.0 but to a file called libuuid.so.1.3.0.original
And i just found libblkid is similarly redirected. I remade the symlinks (and deleted those bogus files) and it all works now. Sorry for the false report. But thank you for the help, it made it obvious what the problem was. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to util-linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1869127 Title: after upgrade uuidgen crashes, complaining about version of libuuid.1 Status in util-linux package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: I execute uuidgen and get: $ uuidgen uuidgen: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1: version `UUID_2.31' not found (required by uuidgen I tried: steven@steven-ge40:~$ sudo apt-get clean steven@steven-ge40:~$ sudo apt-get install --reinstall libuuid1 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 41.6 kB of archives. After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu eoan-updates/main amd64 libuuid1 amd64 2.34-0.1ubuntu2.4 [20.3 kB] Get:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu eoan-updates/main i386 libuuid1 i386 2.34-0.1ubuntu2.4 [21.3 kB] Fetched 41.6 kB in 1s (42.1 kB/s) (Reading database ... 605009 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../libuuid1_2.34-0.1ubuntu2.4_amd64.deb ... Unpacking libuuid1:amd64 (2.34-0.1ubuntu2.4) over (2.34-0.1ubuntu2.4) ... Preparing to unpack .../libuuid1_2.34-0.1ubuntu2.4_i386.deb ... Unpacking libuuid1:i386 (2.34-0.1ubuntu2.4) over (2.34-0.1ubuntu2.4) ... Setting up libuuid1:amd64 (2.34-0.1ubuntu2.4) ... Setting up libuuid1:i386 (2.34-0.1ubuntu2.4) ... Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.30-0ubuntu2.1) ... steven@steven-ge40:~$ uuidgen uuidgen: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1: version `UUID_2.31' not found (required by uuidgen) But that did not help. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 19.10 Package: uuid-runtime 2.34-0.1ubuntu2.4 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.3.0-42.34-generic 5.3.18 Uname: Linux 5.3.0-42-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zavl icp zcommon znvpair nvidia_modeset nvidia ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu8.6 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: XFCE Date: Thu Mar 26 13:27:34 2020 InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-03-30 (1822 days ago) InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 15.04 "Vivid Vervet" - Alpha amd64 (20150319) SourcePackage: util-linux UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to eoan on 2019-10-31 (146 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/util-linux/+bug/1869127/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp