Bug 302601 - Firefox and startkde refuse to start, unsupported version 0 of verdef
Summary: Firefox and startkde refuse to start, unsupported version 0 of verdef
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: libstdc++so7
Version: 7
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
low
urgent
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Benjamin Kosnik
QA Contact:
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2007-09-24 05:52 UTC by Penelope Fudd
Modified: 2013-08-09 05:48 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2008-06-17 02:27:54 UTC
Type: ---
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Attachments (Terms of Use)
Error log file '.xsession-errors'. (1.28 KB, text/plain)
2007-09-24 05:52 UTC, Penelope Fudd
no flags Details

Description Penelope Fudd 2007-09-24 05:52:33 UTC
Description of problem:
On a fresh install of Fedora 7, I installed just about everything (except
emacs), then updated things with pup.  Now I find I can't run firefox, startkde
and who knows what else.  Errors show up in .xsession-errors.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
The programs won't start, no matter what I try.  I'm not keen on reinstalling
Fedora to fix this.

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Install Fedora 7, no extra repositories, select everything.
2.Update all rpms.
3.Try running Firefox, or startkde.
  
Actual results:
/usr/bin/mailsettings: /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6: unsupported version 0 of Verdef
record
/usr/bin/mailsettings: error while loading shared libraries:
/usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6: unsupported version 0 of Verdef 
record

Expected results:
The programs should just run.

Additional info:
I've attached my .xsession-errors file.  My apologies for indicating this is
libstdc++so7, but libstdc++so6 doesn't appear to be on the list of components. 
In any event, I'm just guessing.

Comment 1 Penelope Fudd 2007-09-24 05:52:33 UTC
Created attachment 203771 [details]
Error log file '.xsession-errors'.

Comment 2 Penelope Fudd 2007-09-24 06:10:22 UTC
Here's an additional bit o' data:

# cd /usr/bin/; ldd mailsettings
./mailsettings: /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6: unsupported version 0 of Verdef record
./mailsettings: error while loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6:
unsupported version 0 of Verneed record

# ldd * |& sort -u | grep -c 'unsupported version 0 of Verdef record'
434

# ls | wc -l
2955

That's ~ 14% of all the files in /usr/bin; 21% if you only count ELF binaries.

Comment 3 Penelope Fudd 2007-09-27 13:17:38 UTC
Oh, did I mention that /bin/rpm is one of the programs that can't be run?

How the hell am I going to recover from this without reinstalling??

Rescue CD, I guess.

Comment 4 Bug Zapper 2008-05-14 14:27:57 UTC
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Comment 5 Bug Zapper 2008-06-17 02:27:53 UTC
Fedora 7 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on June 13, 2008. 
Fedora 7 is no longer maintained, which means that it will not 
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