Comment 1 for bug 151045

When updating yesterday using the kubuntu update something bad happened. It was not apparent at first. Was told to reboot, which I did. A new kernel - 2.6.22-13-386 - had been installed and after a while I was dumped into a shell with no X, my nvidia-glx driver was not working.

ran "aptitude update"
ran "aptitude full-upgrade" with the following results:

pj@nazgul:~$ sudo aptitude full-upgrade
Indlæser pakkelisterne... Færdig
Opbygger afhængighedstræ
Reading state information... Færdig
Læser information om udvidet tilstand
klargører pakketilstande... Færdig
Opbygger database over mærkater... Færdig
Følgende pakker vil blive opgraderet:
  apport capplets-data compiz-gnome evolution gnome-session libgnome2-common libgnomevfs2-common metacity-common
  nautilus-data sun-java6-jre
The following partially installed packages will be configured:
  apport-gtk apport-qt apturl compiz deskbar-applet evince evolution-common evolution-data-server
  evolution-plugins gnome-app-install gnome-control-center gnome-panel gnome-panel-data gnome-user-guide
  language-selector libcamel1.2-10 libebook1.2-9 libecal1.2-7 libedata-book1.2-2 libedata-cal1.2-6
  libedataserverui1.2-8 libexchange-storage1.2-3 libgconf2.0-cil libgnome-vfs2.0-cil libgnome-window-settings1
  libgnome2-0 libgnome2.0-cil libgnomevfs2-0 libgnomevfs2-bin libgnomevfs2-extra libgtkhtml2.0-cil libmetacity0
  libnautilus-extension1 libpanel-applet2-0 libtotem-plparser7 metacity nautilus python-gnome2-extras
  sun-java6-bin sun-java6-jdk sun-java6-plugin synaptic totem totem-mozilla totem-xine ubuntu-desktop ubuntu-docs
  update-manager
10 pakker opgraderet, 0 nyinstalleret, 0 til afinstallering og 0 ikke opgraderet.
Skal hente 0B/12,2MB arkiver. Efter udpakning vil 2011kB blive frigjort.
Vil du fortsætte) [Y/n?]
Skriver information om udvidet tilstand... Færdig
Prækonfigurerer pakker ...
(Læser database... 292051 filer og mapper aktuelt installeret.)
Gør klar til at erstatte sun-java6-jre 6-03-0ubuntu1 (med .../sun-java6-jre_6-03-0ubuntu2_all.deb)...
sun-dlj-v1-1 license has already been accepted
Udpakker erstatning sun-java6-jre...
update-mime-database: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2: undefined symbol: gzopen64
dpkg: advarsel - gammelt post-removal-script returnerede afslutningsstatus 127
dpkg - forsøger i stedet script fra ny pakke...
update-mime-database: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2: undefined symbol: gzopen64
...
and much more of the same, many complaints about "/usr/lib/libxml2.so.2: undefined symbol: gzopen64"

The gzopen64() is apparently there:
pj@nazgul:~$ strings /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2.6.30 |grep gzopen64
gzopen64

Using objdump I get:
pj@nazgul:~$ objdump -T /usr/lib/libz.so.1 | grep gzopen64
00004040 g DF .text 0000001b Base gzopen64

Listings of /usr/lib:
pj@nazgul:~$ ls -l /usr/lib/libxml2*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 2007-10-09 16:39 /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2 -> libxml2.so.2.6.30
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1166856 2007-10-05 10:08 /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2.6.30

pj@nazgul:~$ ls -l /usr/lib/libz*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 90566 2007-07-30 04:12 /usr/lib/libz.a
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 2007-08-31 14:17 /usr/lib/libzephyr.so.3 -> libzephyr.so.3.0.0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 40152 2007-08-02 16:23 /usr/lib/libzephyr.so.3.0.0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 2007-08-26 22:56 /usr/lib/libz.so -> libz.so.1.2.3.3
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 2007-08-26 22:56 /usr/lib/libz.so.1 -> libz.so.1.2.3.3
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 80504 2007-07-30 04:12 /usr/lib/libz.so.1.2.3.3
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 2007-08-26 23:32 /usr/lib/libzvbi-chains.so.0 -> libzvbi-chains.so.0.0.0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 50236 2007-05-01 09:50 /usr/lib/libzvbi-chains.so.0.0.0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 2007-08-26 23:32 /usr/lib/libzvbi.so.0 -> libzvbi.so.0.10.0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 431036 2007-05-01 09:50 /usr/lib/libzvbi.so.0.10.0

Am not running on kernel 2.6.22.12 with crippled firefox and openoffice and presumably many other applications.

Feel free to ask for more information.