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.