dnsproxy will not start: symbol lookup error

[Chris J]

Binary package hint: dnsproxy

dnsproxy 1.15-6 will not start on lucid, throws the following error:

/usr/sbin/dnsproxy: symbol lookup error: /usr/sbin/dnsproxy: undefined symbol: event_sigcb

According to an upstream report, dnsproxy 1.16 is available and does not rely on this symbol. According to the libevent maintainers (1.4.13-stable-1), this symbol is not and has never been exposed.

Karmic was not affected.

[Stefan Reuter (stefan-reuter)]

Until this issue is fixed in Ubuntu using the dnsproxy_1.16-0.1 package from Debian unstable works fine on Lucid.

[Tapas Mishra (mightydreams)]

I faced the same problem but I am not able to understand how to apply the solution.
I manually downloaded from here
wget http://debian.nctu.edu.tw/ubuntu//pool/universe/d/dnsproxy/dnsproxy_1.16-0.1_amd64.deb
and then tried dpkg -i dnsproxy_1.16-0.1_amd64.deb
as I am having a 64 bit lucid server.
Let me know what needs to be done for the same.

[Chris J (chriscf)]

Nice to see that a year after the official LTS release, this package is still unusable. 1.16 works, and is in every other non-LTS release since. Can we get an official backport please?

[Marcos Talau (marcostalau)]

This bug was already fixed in the last version available on Debian