mapdevfs: error while loading shared libraries

[Asif Youssuff]

Binary package hint: os-prober

Freshly installed Karmic system, I run sudo os-prober to try to detect my Windows partition -- I get these errors:

sudo os-prober
[sudo] password for tanzib:
mapdevfs: error while loading shared libraries: libdebian-installer.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
mapdevfs: error while loading shared libraries: libdebian-installer.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
mapdevfs: error while loading shared libraries: libdebian-installer.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
mapdevfs: error while loading shared libraries: libdebian-installer.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
mapdevfs: error while loading shared libraries: libdebian-installer.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
mapdevfs: error while loading shared libraries: libdebian-installer.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Jun 14 18:35:24 2009
Dependencies:

DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: os-prober 1.29ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.30-9.10-generic
SourcePackage: os-prober
Uname: Linux 2.6.30-9-generic x86_64

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

You shouldn't have a mapdevfs binary installed at all; this isn't really os-prober's fault (it can deal with a *missing* mapdevfs, but not a broken one), but the fault of whatever set your system up to have a mapdevfs binary without its dependencies satisfied. Could you please attach /var/log/installer/syslog to this bug?

[Asif Youssuff (yoasif)]

/var/log/installer/syslog does not exist on this system, and the os-prober bug seems to have been fixed in a recent update.

[orange (launchpad-net-orange-tree)]

I'm having this on karmic as well - no /var/log/installer/syslog
dpkg -S /bin/mapdevfs gives:
ubiquity: /bin/mapdevfs

[orange (launchpad-net-orange-tree)]

temporarily removing /bin/mapdevfs seems to solve the problem - I suspect this is related to the install not finishing properly :(

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

If you experience this, please try reinstalling to reproduce this bug, and *before* you reboot, attach /var/log/syslog from the running live session.

[orange (launchpad-net-orange-tree)]

will try on the latest daily live cd...
no news is good news...

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