[parisc-linux] Something broke dselect/apt...

[Richard Hirst]

On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 06:37:44AM -0800, Tom wrote:
> Unfortunately I wasn't watching the update - it's been a little too stable
> lately, I guess...
> 
> I ran apt-get update/upgrade on Monday - all working. Just ran it again
> this morning, had ~9 packages updated. All updated fine - no errors on the
> update - but then apt-* fails to work with "error while loading shared
> libraries - /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.2-3.so.3.2: undefined symbol:
> _cp_push_exception". Trying to run dselect gives "error while loading
> shared libraries: dselect: undefined symbol: __rethrow".
> 
> Has anyone noticed this yet and/or noticed something I may have goofed up?
> I believe there was a palo update in there, plus one of the libc6-*
> packages, but other than that I've no idea...

This is because you have picked up a new libstdc++3, but not a new apt.
We tried to update both together, but in the event, apt got delayed by
a day.  You need to grab the new apt.deb and install with dpkg -i.
It should appear in <ftp://ftp.debian.org:/debian/pool/main/a/apt/>
in a few hours.

Richard