Bug#562636: libshibsp4: shibd wont start

[Russ Allbery]

Jason Cormie <j.cormie at abertay.ac.uk> writes:

> Package: libshibsp4
> Version: 2.3+dfsg-1
> Severity: grave
> Justification: renders package unusable

> uadsmc11:~# /etc/init.d/shibd restart
> shibd error: unable to run config check as user 
> Restarting Shibboleth 2 daemon: /usr/sbin/shibd: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libshibsp.so.4: undefined symbol: _ZNK10xmltooling27AbstractDOMCachingXMLObject6setDOMEPN11xercesc_3_010DOMElementEb
> shibd.

> any ideas?

Ongoing Xerces-C transition.  Xerces-C 3.1 was uploaded to unstable, which
changes the namespace for all Xerces-C objects, so the Shibboleth stack
has to be rebuilt.  Unfortunately, there isn't a good way to make that
transition cleanly, since the API of the underlying Shibboleth libraries
changes based on what version of Xerces-C they're built against.

Two of the dependent libraries have been rebuilt and there are two more to
go.  In the meantime, you'll want to use the versions from testing.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra at debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>