fritz-bayer@web.de (Fritz Bayer) wrote in message news:...
> Hello,
>
> I have a very big problem and I would be very thankfull, if somebody
> would help me out, since I don't know how to fix this.
>
> It all started with me trying to install an old library
> (libstdc++.so.2.8) into /usr/lib, which I need to start a java
> applicaton server.
>
> Since linking to a newer library version didn't do the job, I decided
> to download the old library from a remote system (which was bad idea).
>
> What I realized now is that the kernel version differed. Anyway I
> downloaded the module with ssh directly into the /usr/lib/ folder.
>
> Thereafter my system kind of crashed. X shut itself down. I can still
> boot the system but executing most commands leads to the following
> error message:
>
> dselect: /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5: no verrsion information available
> (required by dselect)
> dselect: relocation error: dselect: symbol
> _ZVN10__cxxabiv120__si_class_type_infoE, verson GLIBCPP_3.2 not
> defined in file libstdc++.co.5 with link time reference
>
> FAM a program which watches certain files for changes fails on bootup
> giving the the same error message:
>
> /usr/sbin/famd: /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5: no verrsion information
> available (required by dselect)
> /usr/sbin/famd: relocation error: dselect: symbol
> _ZVN10__cxxabiv120__si_class_type_infoE, verson GLIBCPP_3.2 not
> defined in file libstdc++.co.5 with link time reference
>
> After these messages I deleted the oldlibrary from the /usr/lib path
> and touched all the new vesions available.
>
> I'm running debian/testing (kernel 2.6.5) so I also ran
> dpkg-reconfigure on those libraries.
>
> But it all did not help. Can somebody please help me? I'm desperate
> and don't know what I can do to get the system going again...


Actually I solved this myself. Just for the people who are interested
in how I solved it.

I ran ld on the library, which gave me the message "The file is
truncated". So I figured its simply corrupted.

Fortunately I have another windows box. So I downloaded the libsdtc++5
package from the debian site and copied it onto the linux box (samba
is running).

Fortunately the command dpkg does not depend on the library and so I
could simply reinstall it.

After that everything worked fine...