[RESOLVED] apt-get: relocation error on dist-upgrade to Xenial

[aseering]

I'm creating a cross-reference for this failure: The root cause (and the fix) is upstream, but I just hit it and looked for the solution here; I'm filing this ticket so that others who look for the fix here can find it.

WSL forum mods, feel free to close this either right away (since I think there's no action for the WSL team to take here) or once most people have upgraded to 16.04.

I recently ran do-release-upgrade to upgrade to Xenial. After the upgrade, many commands, including apt-get, failed with:

$ sudo apt-get install dialog
apt-get: relocation error: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.5.0: symbol _ZNKSt7__cxx1112basic_stringIcSt11char_traitsIcESaIcEE7compareERKS4_, version GLIBCXX_3.4.21 not defined in file libstdc++.so.6 with link time reference

This is caused by Ubuntu #1572903. The workaround listed there, which worked for me, is as follows:

wget http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/g/gcc-5/libstdc++6_5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.2_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i libstdc++6_5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.2_amd64.deb

[raymens]

I just hit this on 15063.13 after a do-release-upgrade. Updated workaround (package build has been updated):

wget http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/g/gcc-5/libstdc++6_5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.4_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i libstdc++6_5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.4_amd64.deb

[HLFH]

Thank you @raymens. It works.

We can close this issue.

[zkawan]

When I run that wget command it results into error :
Resolving security.ubuntu.com failed. Temporary failure in name resolution

[zkawan]

Now it says Error 404 not found.

[xiadingZ]

when I run sudo dpkg -i libstdc++6_5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.4_amd64.deb, there is a error:

dpkg: warning: downgrading libstdc++6:amd64 from 7.2.0-1ubuntu1~14.04 to 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.4
dpkg: regarding libstdc++6_5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.4_amd64.deb containing libstdc++6:amd64:
 libstdc++6:amd64 breaks libboost-date-time1.55.0
  libboost-date-time1.55.0:amd64 (version 1.55.0-1) is present and installed.

dpkg: error processing archive libstdc++6_5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.4_amd64.deb (--install):
 installing libstdc++6:amd64 would break libboost-date-time1.55.0:amd64, and
 deconfiguration is not permitted (--auto-deconfigure might help)
Errors were encountered while processing:
 libstdc++6_5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.4_amd64.deb

[therealkenc]

These are user space apt and dpkg issues not WSL actionables. The above one looks like this maybe, but that's just because I Googled. Maybe someone will jump in, but you'll probably get better service in a Ubuntu forum or libstdc++ forum.

[gumb0]

I've hit it just now, and here's the updated workaround that worked for me:

wget http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/g/gcc-5/libstdc++6_5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.12_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i libstdc++6_5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.12_amd64.deb

[fabianlee]

Thanks, @gumb0 the libstdc library you referenced above resolved my upgrade from 14.04 to 16.04 (desktop was cycling through login).

[jca-agnitio]

Thanks @gumb0 , that worked for me too.

[rush5150]

I signed up just to add @gumb0 this still works.

Thank you for the help.

[Shrek-DevMasterRobo]

I've hit it just now, and here's the updated workaround that worked for me:

wget http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/g/gcc-5/libstdc++6_5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.12_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i libstdc++6_5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.12_amd64.deb

Thanks a lot for this, After going through on this for hours, finally found a solution that worked. Thanks a lot.

[ferdymercury]

Thanks a lot for the hint. I had to combine it with a bit more work to install other conflicting related packages: https://askubuntu.com/a/1437932/1179344