bind9 installation and dnsutils binaries crash due to libdns.so.64

[Brendan Ribera]

Binary package hint: bind9

1. Ubuntu version:

Description: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
Release: 10.04
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2. Package versions for libdns64, dnsutils and bind9. I'm not sure which is the real cause of this.

libdns64:
  Installed: 1:9.7.0.dfsg.P1-1
  Candidate: 1:9.7.0.dfsg.P1-1
  Version table:
 *** 1:9.7.0.dfsg.P1-1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

dnsutils:
  Installed: 1:9.7.0.dfsg.P1-1
  Candidate: 1:9.7.0.dfsg.P1-1
  Version table:
 *** 1:9.7.0.dfsg.P1-1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

bind9:
  Installed: 1:9.7.0.dfsg.P1-1
  Candidate: 1:9.7.0.dfsg.P1-1
  Version table:
 *** 1:9.7.0.dfsg.P1-1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
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3. What I expected to happen:

When I run 'nslookup google.com', I expect the program to run and produce output.
When I run 'sudo apt-get intsall bind9', I expect the bind9 package to install and be configured so that I can use it.
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4. What happens instead:

Both tasks listed above fail with the same root error.

brendan@pequod:~$ nslookup google.com
nslookup: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libdns.so.64: undefined symbol: GeoIP_country_name_by_ipnum_v6

brendan@pequod:~$ sudo apt-get install --reinstall bind9
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
Setting up bind9 (1:9.7.0.dfsg.P1-1) ...
rndc-confgen: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libdns.so.64: undefined symbol: GeoIP_country_name_by_ipnum_v6
dpkg: error processing bind9 (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 127
Errors were encountered while processing:
 bind9
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: bind9 1:9.7.0.dfsg.P1-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-21.32-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-21-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Apr 29 17:06:00 2010
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Release Candidate amd64 (20100419)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: bind9

[C de-Avillez (hggdh2)]

Thank you for opening this bug and helping make Ubuntu better. I cannot repeat the issue here, all three packages are installed, and work fine. Could you please run 'sudo dpkg --configure -a'? It seems something did not finish configuration...

[Brendan Ribera (abscondment)]

That succeeds without output, but the problem remains. Any other ideas?

[Brendan Ribera (abscondment)]

I figured out what was causing this. A workstation bootstrapping script compiled and installed GeoIP version 1.4.4 to /usr/local/lib. I installed the current repository version (1.4.6) and removed the out-of-date libs, and things started working again. Not a bug.