[Aptitude-devel] Bug#918328: aptitude: symbol lookup error: aptitude: undefined symbol: _ZN6Xapian4MSetC1EOS0_

Ted Percival ted at tedp.id.au
Sat Jan 5 06:18:48 GMT 2019


Package: aptitude
Version: 0.8.11-3
Severity: important

Starting aptitude fails due to a missing Xapian symbol:

$ aptitude
aptitude: symbol lookup error: aptitude: undefined symbol:
_ZN6Xapian4MSetC1EOS0_

This is probably a bug in the syms in the applicable xapian library package
causing aptitude to get a library dependency that is too weak.

In particular, my system has a recent version of aptitude with an older version
of libxapian30, so there was probably a new symbol introduced in libxapian30
without adjusting the shared library dependency information.

$ apt-cache policy aptitude
aptitude:
  Installed: 0.8.11-3
  Candidate: 0.8.11-6
  Version table:
     0.8.11-6 500
        500 http://mirrors.xmission.com/debian testing/main amd64 Packages
        500 http://mirrors.xmission.com/debian unstable/main amd64 Packages
 *** 0.8.11-3 100
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     0.8.7-1 990
        990 http://mirrors.xmission.com/debian stable/main amd64 Packages

$ apt-cache policy libxapian30
libxapian30:
  Installed: 1.4.3-2+deb9u2
  Candidate: 1.4.3-2+deb9u2
  Version table:
     1.4.9-1 500
        500 http://mirrors.xmission.com/debian testing/main amd64 Packages
        500 http://mirrors.xmission.com/debian unstable/main amd64 Packages
 *** 1.4.3-2+deb9u2 990
        990 http://mirrors.xmission.com/debian stable/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status


-- Package-specific info:
Terminal: xterm-256color
$DISPLAY is set.
which aptitude: /usr/bin/aptitude

aptitude version information:

aptitude linkage:
	linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007ffdbd4e5000)
	libapt-pkg.so.5.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.5.0 (0x00007f7386abf000)
	libncursesw.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.6 (0x00007f7386a85000)
	libtinfo.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.6 (0x00007f7386a57000)
	libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0x00007f7386850000)
	libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcwidget.so.3 (0x00007f738674a000)
	libsqlite3.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsqlite3.so.0 (0x00007f7386629000)
	libboost_iostreams.so.1.62.0 => /usr/local/lib/libboost_iostreams.so.1.62.0 (0x00007f738660a000)
	libboost_system.so.1.62.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_system.so.1.62.0 (0x00007f7386605000)
	libxapian.so.30 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxapian.so.30 (0x00007f73861f1000)
	libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007f73861d0000)
	libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007f738604d000)
	libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007f7385eca000)
	libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007f7385eae000)
	libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007f7385ced000)
	libresolv.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libresolv.so.2 (0x00007f7385cd3000)
	libz.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0x00007f7385ab5000)
	libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbz2.so.1.0 (0x00007f7385aa2000)
	liblzma.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblzma.so.5 (0x00007f738587c000)
	liblz4.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblz4.so.1 (0x00007f7385668000)
	libzstd.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libzstd.so.1 (0x00007f73855cd000)
	libudev.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libudev.so.1 (0x00007f73855ac000)
	/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f7387101000)
	libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f73855a7000)
	librt.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 (0x00007f738559d000)
	libuuid.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1 (0x00007f7385396000)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.6
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages aptitude depends on:
ii  aptitude-common           0.8.11-3
ii  libapt-pkg5.0             1.8.0~alpha2
ii  libboost-iostreams1.62.0  1.62.0+dfsg-10
ii  libboost-system1.62.0     1.62.0+dfsg-10
ii  libc6                     2.28-4
ii  libcwidget3v5             0.5.17-11
ii  libgcc1                   1:8.2.0-13
ii  libncursesw6              6.1+20181013-1
ii  libsigc++-2.0-0v5         2.10.0-1
ii  libsqlite3-0              3.25.3-2
ii  libstdc++6                8.2.0-13
ii  libtinfo6                 6.1+20181013-1
ii  libxapian30               1.4.3-2+deb9u2

Versions of packages aptitude recommends:
ii  libparse-debianchangelog-perl  1.2.0-12
ii  sensible-utils                 0.0.9+deb9u1

Versions of packages aptitude suggests:
ii  apt-xapian-index                0.49
pn  aptitude-doc-en | aptitude-doc  <none>
pn  debtags                         <none>
ii  tasksel                         3.39

-- no debconf information



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