System error due to bind9 librairies not "up to date"

[Enrico Rosina]

Each time I logged on in Ubuntu 14.04 (trusty), a pop-up appeared with the message "System error". The message appeared twice, a few seconds after the beginning of the session. It appeared never a third time in the same session.

I sometimes clicked on "cancel", or sometimes on "report the problem". But the problem kept happening, After my acknowledgement of the message, everything seemed to be ok, I could work normally in my session.

With the details of my reports, I could see this had something to do with those elements:
(I may write them down wrong, because I did it manually, I was not able to copy-paste them)

bind9-host
libbind9-90
libisc95
libisccc90
libisccfg90
liblwres90
libpam-systemd
libsystemd-daemon0, libsystemd-jouran0, libsystemd-login0,
libudev1
systemd-services
udev

So I went in synaptic, searched for libbind9-90, and discovered that there was a little "!" icon on the left. I could right-clic on the "select for update" menu, and following dependencies were automatically selected:

bind9-host, dnsutils, libdns100, libisc95, libisccfg90, liblwres90

I clicked on "apply changes", and then the problem seems to be solved.

I don't think there are side-effects, but I don't know why those libraries were to be changed, because my system is up to date (reminder: it's only 14.04 trusty, though)

Hope this helps, thank you for your attention. I don't need to be helped (my system is running OK), I'm just trying to help you. Of course I will have a look if you need me to search further on my system settings.

Kind regards,
Enrico Rosina

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My configuration:
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Ubuntu 14.04 (trusty)
GNOME 3.8.4 (Ubuntu 2015-12-02)
GCC version 4.8 (x86_64-linux-gnu)
Xorg version 1.18.3 (03 February 2017 03:11:17AM)
NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module 367.57 Mon Oct 3 20:37:01 PDT 2016

$ lsb_release
   No LSB modules are available.
$ uname -a
   Linux rosina-Z97 4.4.0-62-generic #83~14.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Wed Jan 18 18:10:30 UTC 2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
$ apt-cache policy bind9 (AFTER UPDATE !!!)
bind9:
  Installé : (aucun)
  Candidat : 1:9.9.5.dfsg-3ubuntu0.12
 Table de version :
     1:9.9.5.dfsg-3ubuntu0.12 0
        500 http://ch.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main amd64 Packages
     1:9.9.5.dfsg-3ubuntu0.11 0
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-security/main amd64 Packages
     1:9.9.5.dfsg-3 0
        500 http://ch.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages
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[Christian Ehrhardt  (paelzer)]

Thank you for your report Enrico!
I didn't see a lot of similar bugs, but it is always good to document something for others to find.

I went through history a bit and found bug 1401055.
Do you happen to remember if your error message was anything like that?

[Christian Ehrhardt  (paelzer)]

Since it is solved, but worth discussing/documenting I set "opinion" - do not take this a as a nack, I really appreciate your report. But since "I don't need to be helped (my system is running OK), I'm just trying to help you" most other states would be "more wrong".

[Enrico Rosina (e-rosina)]

Hello Christian,

No problem at all with the status change.

I don't think that the bug bug 1401055 is similar to mine. I carefully searched my log file but did not find any of the keywords that were present in this bug report.

I did not find hints showing that an install which failed. I may be wrong but the bug 1401055 says: "libbind9-90 (not installed)", and it was not my problem. This library was installed, it was just a version which was older that the one expected.

Anyway I will still make some searching, if I find something I will report it.

Thank you for your concern, have a nice week-end.
Enrico

http://www.anisor.ch

[Enrico Rosina (e-rosina)]

Hello again,

In finally found something more accurate in the /var/crash directory:

Title: indicator-power-service crashed with SIGSEGV in g_object_unref()
UPowerDump:
 Daemon:
   daemon-version: 0.9.23
   can-suspend: yes
   can-hibernate: yes
   on-battery: no
   on-low-battery: no
   lid-is-closed: no
   lid-is-present: no
   is-docked: no
UnreportableReason:
 You have some obsolete package versions installed. Please upgrade the following packages and check if the problem still occurs:
 bind9-host, libbind9-90, libdns100, libisc95, libisccc90, libisccfg90, liblwres90, libpam-systemd, libsystemd-daemon0, libsystemd-journal0, libsystemd-login0, libudev1, systemd-services, udev
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
_MarkForUpload: True

Hope this helps...