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#1 2008-03-23 22:22:32

KimTjik
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Registered: 2007-08-22
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Perl - upgrade errors: am I supposed to do something about it?

Message while upgrading:

:: Installing SAX XML Parsers
/usr/bin/perl: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/current/i686-linux-thread-multi/auto/XML/LibXML/Common/Common.so: undefined symbol: Perl_Tstack_sp_ptr
/usr/bin/perl: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/current/i686-linux-thread-multi/auto/XML/LibXML/Common/Common.so: undefined symbol: Perl_Tstack_sp_ptr

I'm sorry, but I don't have a clue about what this really mean, or if I have to fix something. I haven't encountered any issues yet, so I frankly don't know whether these two identical messages have an impact on my system. What advice do you knowledgeable people give me?

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#2 2008-03-24 02:46:58

tigrmesh
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Re: Perl - upgrade errors: am I supposed to do something about it?

It seems that you have been affected by this:  http://www.archlinux.org/news/386/.

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#3 2008-03-24 03:31:00

Allan
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Re: Perl - upgrade errors: am I supposed to do something about it?

What package were you installing at the time?

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#4 2008-03-24 08:26:43

KimTjik
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Re: Perl - upgrade errors: am I supposed to do something about it?

I read the news, but since it plainly states "Pay attention to the upgrade notes because some things have changed and may require some action" I don't know what to do.

I didn't install any packages besides upgrading my system. Packages upgraded:

Targets: perl-5.10.0-3  cairo-perl-1.044-1  cddb_get-2.27-3 
         e2fsprogs-1.40.8-1  cryptsetup-1.0.6-1  filezilla-3.0.8.1-1 
         freemind-0.8.1-1  perl-locale-gettext-1.05-3  sdl_perl-2.1.3-2 
         frozen-bubble-2.1.0-2  glib-perl-1.162-1  gtk2-perl-1.162-1 
         perl-html-tagset-3.10-3  perl-html-parser-3.56-3  perl-uri-1.35-3 
         perl-libwww-5.808-2  perlxml-2.36-1  perl-xml-simple-2.18-2 
         perl-libxml-common-0.13-3  perl-xml-namespacesupport-1.09-3 
         perl-xml-sax-0.16-3  perl-libxml-1.66-1  gcstar-1.3.2-2  grub-0.97-12 
         guifications-2.16-1  imagemagick-6.3.8.0-2  udev-118-7 
         initscripts-2008.03-4  klibc-extras-2.4-1 
         klibc-module-init-tools-3.2.2-3  libcdio-0.80-1  perl-mp3-info-1.23-2 
         purple-plugin-pack-2.3.0-1  subversion-1.4.5-4  vorbis-tools-1.2.0-3

Still no signs of malfunctioning, so it might be irrelevant. However this is over my head and I don't know what might happen since "perl-xml-sax" through out those errors.

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#5 2008-03-24 08:59:01

Allan
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Re: Perl - upgrade errors: am I supposed to do something about it?

Look like it is a problem with perl-libxml which hasn't been updated for the new perl packaging.  I wouldn't worry about it unless something else is broken.  It should be updated soon.

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