Termux-packages: libandroid-support error: CANNOT LINK EXECUTABLE ... cannot locate symbol "nl_langinfo" referenced by ...

[steffenl82]

Today while doing an "apt update" and "apt ugrade" I got an upgrade for libandroid-support.

Now my termux installation is completely inaccessible.

When I try to start termux I get the following message and the program immediately terminates:

"CANNOT LINK EXECUTABLE "/data/data/com.termux/files/usr/bin/bash": cannot locate symbol "nl_langinfo" referenced by "/data/data/com.termux/files/usr/lib/libreadline.so.7.0"..."

Any help would be highly appreciated! Thank you.

[Grimler91]

What device do you have, is it arm, aarch64 or other?

[steffenl82]

it is an arm device

[Grimler91]

(Oh yeah, you apparently wrote that in the title.. :) )

You can downgrade libandroid-support temporarily until is fixed by:

• opening a failsafe session: https://wiki.termux.com/wiki/Recover_a_broken_environment#Launching_a_Failsafe_Session
• setting up environment: export PATH=$PREFIX/bin:$PATH; export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$PREFIX/lib
• download libandroid-support 22: curl -LO https://grimler.se/dists/testing/misc/binary-arm/libandroid-support_22-1_arm.deb. If your arch isn't arm then replace arm in binary-arm and libandroid-support_22-1_arm.deb with your arch.
• install old version: dpkg -i ./libandroid-support_22-1_arm.deb
• restart the app

And then avoid apt upgrade for a while (or use apt-mark hold libandroid-support)
An updated libandroid-support has been pushed to the repo so running apt update && apt upgrade after restoring the old libandroid-support will fix everything

[aero]

@Grimler91

sh: curl: not found

in failsafe session.

[Grimler91]

@aero ah, sorry, so you need to export PATH before downloading, I'll update the steps

[sw2000]

Hi, I was getting this error while in failsafe mode that prevented me following the instructions above. CANNOT LINK EXECUTABLE DEPENDENCIES: "libcurl.so" is 32-bit instead of 64-bit

I reinstalled Termux and held back libandroid-support, ran pkg update as usual, and it appears to be working again now, thanks.

[Grimler91]

@sw2000 probably means that your arch wasn't arm (I'll add a note about that in the instructions), thanks!

[steffenl82]

@Grimler91 Thank you for the instructions. However, I'm only able to go to the point of installing the previous version, when I get the following error:

tar: chown 1000:1000 '.': Operation not permitted
tar: chown 1000:1000 './control': Operation not permitted
dpkg-deb: error: tar subprocess returned error exit status 1
dpkg: error processing archive ./libandroid-support_22-1_arm.deb (--install):
dpkg-deb --control subprocess returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
./libandroid-support_22-1_arm.deb

[Grimler91]

@steffenl82 Hmm, which folder did you download the .deb to? Try it from termux home (/data/data/com.termux/files/home) if you were in some other folder.

If that wasn't the issue then it might be something problem with busybox tar, need to look into that

[steffenl82]

The file is in the home folder (/data/data/com.termux/files/home)

[steffenl82]

I was finally able to recover my installation manually by extracting libandroid-support.so from libandroid-support_22-1_arm.deb and putting it into /data/data/com.termux/files/usr/lib/

[Grimler91]

@steffenl82 glad you solved it!

[landfillbaby]

this seems to be fixed along with #3285 and #3282 and termux/termux-app#1001 (which were basically all duplicates)

[cilantro13]

https://termux.net stable InRelease iya still same