[Pkg-db-devel] Bug#569977: Bug#569977: re. Bug#569977: Acknowledgement (libdb4.7-java-gcj: broken - prevents other packages from installing)

[Gary Dale]

Clint Adams wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 10:17:06AM -0500, Gary Dale wrote:
>   
>> dpkg: *gcj-dbtool-4.2* not found.
>>
>> I got the same result for libdb4.7-java-gcj. However, if I try to  
>> install it, the gcj-dbtool-4.2 isn't found while libdb4.7-java-gcj gives  
>> me this:
>>     
>
>
> gcj-dbtool-4.2 is a program on your disk that is apparently not associated
> with any package.  libdb4.7-java-gcj is a package, so running dpkg -S on
> it would not be helpful.
>   
Except that dpkg is trying to do something with it during the 
lbidb4.7-java-gcj update.
>   
>> gcj-dbtool-4.2: error while loading shared libraries: libgcj.so.81:  
>>     
>
> If you had the proper package installed, libgcj.so.81 would be present
> because of the appropriate dependency on the libgcj8-1 package.
>
> The question is why you have gcj-dbtool-4.2 if the package is not
> installed.
>   
I gather it is in one or more scripts associated with the 
libdb4.7-java-gcj package since I'm getting messages related to that 
package immediately before and after the gcj-dbtool-4.2 error. Moreover, 
dpkg seems to be saying that the program is referenced in both the old 
and new packages.

All I know is that has just started happening and it's preventing me 
from installing the Squeeze updates.