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After the last update this happened:

/usr/lib/apt/methods/http: relocation error: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgnutls.so.30: symbol _idn2_punycode_decode version IDN2_0.0.0 not defined in file libidn2.so.0 with link time reference
Reading package lists... Done
E: Method http has died unexpectedly!
E: Sub-process http returned an error code (127)
E: Method /usr/lib/apt/methods/http did not start correctly

What's this? How do I solve it?

The latest command and results obtained:

$ sudo apt-get update
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Get:27 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security/multiverse i386 Packages [4,152 B]
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Reading package lists... Done

$ sudo apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
  linux-generic linux-headers-generic linux-image-generic
The following packages will be upgraded:
  landscape-common libidn2-0 libnss-systemd libpam-systemd libpython2.7 libpython2.7-dev libpython2.7-minimal libpython2.7-stdlib libpython3.6 libpython3.6-minimal
  libpython3.6-stdlib libsystemd0 libudev1 linux-libc-dev memcached python2.7 python2.7-dev python2.7-minimal python3.6 python3.6-minimal systemd systemd-sysv udev
23 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded.
Need to get 44.7 MB of archives.
After this operation, 1,024 B disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
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$ sudo apt-get install linux-generic linux-headers-generic linux-image-generic
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
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The following additional packages will be installed:
  linux-headers-4.15.0-62 linux-headers-4.15.0-62-generic linux-image-4.15.0-62-generic linux-modules-4.15.0-62-generic linux-modules-extra-4.15.0-62-generic
Suggested packages:
  fdutils linux-doc-4.15.0 | linux-source-4.15.0 linux-tools
Recommended packages:
  thermald
/usr/lib/apt/methods/http: relocation error: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgnutls.so.30: symbol _idn2_punycode_decode version IDN2_0.0.0 not defined in file libidn2.so.0 with link time reference
/usr/lib/apt/methods/http: relocation error: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgnutls.so.30: symbol _idn2_punycode_decode version IDN2_0.0.0 not defined in file libidn2.so.0 with link time reference
/usr/lib/apt/methods/http: relocation error: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgnutls.so.30: symbol _idn2_punycode_decode version IDN2_0.0.0 not defined in file libidn2.so.0 with link time reference
/usr/lib/apt/methods/http: relocation error: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgnutls.so.30: symbol _idn2_punycode_decode version IDN2_0.0.0 not defined in file libidn2.so.0 with link time reference
/usr/lib/apt/methods/http: relocation error: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgnutls.so.30: symbol _idn2_punycode_decode version IDN2_0.0.0 not defined in file libidn2.so.0 with link time reference
/usr/lib/apt/methods/http: relocation error: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgnutls.so.30: symbol _idn2_punycode_decode version IDN2_0.0.0 not defined in file libidn2.so.0 with link time reference
/usr/lib/apt/methods/http: relocation error: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgnutls.so.30: symbol _idn2_punycode_decode version IDN2_0.0.0 not defined in file libidn2.so.0 with link time reference
/usr/lib/apt/methods/http: relocation error: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgnutls.so.30: symbol _idn2_punycode_decode version IDN2_0.0.0 not defined in file libidn2.so.0 with link time reference
E: Method http has died unexpectedly!
E: Sub-process http returned an error code (127)
E: Method /usr/lib/apt/methods/http did not start correctly
E: Method http has died unexpectedly!
E: Sub-process http returned an error code (127)
E: Method /usr/lib/apt/methods/http did not start correctly
E: Method http has died unexpectedly!
E: Sub-process http returned an error code (127)
E: Method /usr/lib/apt/methods/http did not start correctly
E: Method http has died unexpectedly!
E: Sub-process http returned an error code (127)
E: Method /usr/lib/apt/methods/http did not start correctly
E: Method http has died unexpectedly!
E: Sub-process http returned an error code (127)
E: Method /usr/lib/apt/methods/http did not start correctly
E: Method http has died unexpectedly!
E: Sub-process http returned an error code (127)
E: Method /usr/lib/apt/methods/http did not start correctly
E: Method http has died unexpectedly!
E: Sub-process http returned an error code (127)
E: Method /usr/lib/apt/methods/http did not start correctly
E: Method http has died unexpectedly!
E: Sub-process http returned an error code (127)
E: Method /usr/lib/apt/methods/http did not start correctly

$ sudo apt-get update
/usr/lib/apt/methods/http: relocation error: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgnutls.so.30: symbol _idn2_punycode_decode version IDN2_0.0.0 not defined in file libidn2.so.0 with link time reference
/usr/lib/apt/methods/http: relocation error: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgnutls.so.30: symbol _idn2_punycode_decode version IDN2_0.0.0 not defined in file libidn2.so.0 with link time reference
/usr/lib/apt/methods/http: relocation error: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgnutls.so.30: symbol _idn2_punycode_decode version IDN2_0.0.0 not defined in file libidn2.so.0 with link time reference
/usr/lib/apt/methods/http: relocation error: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgnutls.so.30: symbol _idn2_punycode_decode version IDN2_0.0.0 not defined in file libidn2.so.0 with link time reference
/usr/lib/apt/methods/http: relocation error: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgnutls.so.30: symbol _idn2_punycode_decode version IDN2_0.0.0 not defined in file libidn2.so.0 with link time reference
/usr/lib/apt/methods/http: relocation error: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgnutls.so.30: symbol _idn2_punycode_decode version IDN2_0.0.0 not defined in file libidn2.so.0 with link time reference
/usr/lib/apt/methods/http: relocation error: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgnutls.so.30: symbol _idn2_punycode_decode version IDN2_0.0.0 not defined in file libidn2.so.0 with link time reference
Reading package lists... Done
E: Method http has died unexpectedly!
E: Sub-process http returned an error code (127)
E: Method /usr/lib/apt/methods/http did not start correctly
E: Method http has died unexpectedly!
E: Sub-process http returned an error code (127)
E: Method /usr/lib/apt/methods/http did not start correctly
E: Method http has died unexpectedly!
E: Sub-process http returned an error code (127)
E: Method /usr/lib/apt/methods/http did not start correctly
E: Method http has died unexpectedly!
E: Sub-process http returned an error code (127)
E: Method /usr/lib/apt/methods/http did not start correctly
E: Method http has died unexpectedly!
E: Sub-process http returned an error code (127)
E: Method /usr/lib/apt/methods/http did not start correctly
E: Method http has died unexpectedly!
E: Sub-process http returned an error code (127)
E: Method /usr/lib/apt/methods/http did not start correctly
E: Method http has died unexpectedly!
E: Sub-process http returned an error code (127)
E: Method /usr/lib/apt/methods/http did not start correctly
E: Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/bionic/InRelease
E: Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/bionic-updates/InRelease
E: Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/bionic-backports/InRelease
E: Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/bionic-security/InRelease
E: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/certbot/certbot/ubuntu/dists/bionic/InRelease
E: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/ondrej/apache2/ubuntu/dists/bionic/InRelease
E: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/ondrej/php/ubuntu/dists/bionic/InRelease
E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
Zanna
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alebal
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    After last update? Ubuntu 18.10 reached EOL back 18-July-2019 (http://fridge.ubuntu.com/2019/07/19/ubuntu-18-10-cosmic-cuttlefish-end-of-life-reached-on-july-18-2019/) and is thus off-topic here unless your question is specific to moving to a supported release of Ubuntu. Your paste however refers to bionic? or 18.04 (18.10 is cosmic) so something is wrong, but 18.10 is off-topic here now due EOL. – guiverc Sep 11 '19 at 02:21
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    @guiverc I'm experiencing the same issue with Ubuntu 18.04 which is LTS, so this problem does not seem to be exclusive to ubuntu 18.10. However the temporary workaround described in Aaron answer fixed the issue. – Polosson Sep 11 '19 at 06:41
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    Yeah,latest apt-upgrade downloaded some libidin crap which nuked my boot.Thanks for the question and the answers. – Mihai Sep 11 '19 at 16:03

3 Answers3

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As per Launchpad bug 1843507, comment #4 worked for me, at least temporarily.

$ wget http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/pool/main/libi/libidn2/libidn2-0_2.0.4-1.1build2_amd64.deb
$ sudo dpkg -i libidn2-0_2.0.4-1.1build2_amd64.deb
$ sudo apt-mark hold libidn2-0

Update: From the bug report, this appears to only affect those using PHP from launchpad.net/~ondrej

Update: Ondřej has released an update for his PHP build already. You can downgrade libidn2-0 so that apt will work again:

$ wget http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/pool/main/libi/libidn2/libidn2-0_2.0.4-1.1build2_amd64.deb
$ sudo dpkg -i libidn2-0_2.0.4-1.1build2_amd64.deb

Then:

$ sudo apt update
$ sudo apt upgrade

And you should be good to go.

Aaron
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  • Have done this and startx worked once. Then, after restart, I cannot event get to the terminal. Sic. Time to say hello to Windows again. Such failures are unacceptable. – fracz Sep 11 '19 at 07:48
  • @fracz Check comment 12 on the bug report. Might be of use to you. – Aaron Sep 11 '19 at 12:50
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    I did this and now it seems to work, but I don't have to restart the server? From what I understand is temporary, if I restart, network manager does not start and I remain completely excluded from my server, can you confirm? So what should I do now? Do I have to update in the coming days or not? How will I understand when the problem is solved and will I be able to update and restart the server? – alebal Sep 11 '19 at 20:27
  • @alebal Ondřej Surý has released an update to his PPA. You should be able to upgrade right now. You might have to sudo apt-mark unhold libidn2-0 – Aaron Sep 11 '19 at 22:31
  • @fracz You don't keep backup snapshots of your main OS? :( Linux OS is like 10gb. Make backups! – FreeSoftwareServers Sep 12 '19 at 01:03
  • @FreeSoftwareServers Backups are great, but downtime is downtime. – gronostaj Sep 12 '19 at 08:22
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    @gronostaj And windows never fails? Downtime is unavoidable really. At least with Linux you can disable updates if stability is priority. – FreeSoftwareServers Sep 12 '19 at 09:20
  • @FreeSoftwareServers I didn't say anything about Windows. I've only pointed out that backups don't solve the problem of broken updates. – gronostaj Sep 12 '19 at 09:32
  • Fair enough, I was responding to fracz I guess. Just feeling defensive :P – FreeSoftwareServers Sep 12 '19 at 09:42
  • @arron Thanks a lot, I followed the updates and made the upgrades, and everything seems to work, but now my server says: *** System restart required ***, but I'm afraid... I can safely restart or I risk not being able to enter the server? – alebal Sep 12 '19 at 19:33
  • @arron All seems to work until today, then today, this: Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function curl_init(). I think is related to the updates, before work. – alebal Sep 13 '19 at 19:03
  • Thank you @Aaron, your "updated" solution (dispensing with the "apt-mark hold libidn2-0" statement) worked for me! I understand that just as your update dispensed with "apt-mark hold", Ondřej has indicated that pinning with apt-mark hold is no longer desirable now that the bug has been fixed. – Slack Undertow Sep 15 '19 at 15:00
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Download this libidn2-0_2.0.5-1_amd64.deb package from the Debian repository to the machine, then run sudo dpkg -i /path/to/.deb to install it in place of the faulty Ubuntu package.

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    Anyone finding issues on Ubuntu 18.04 should install this package. This works. – besrabasant Sep 11 '19 at 09:23
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    This fixed it for me. Why is downgrading this package a fix? – Koen Hendriks Sep 11 '19 at 10:15
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    @KoenHendriks If you didn't see already, it looks like something went wrong with one of the packages (mentioned above); some context here for the curious: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libidn2/+bug/1843507?comments=all – anonymoose Sep 11 '19 at 20:56
  • Can confirm that this solution also worked on Kali Linux 2018.3. – Aura Nov 15 '19 at 22:42
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I experienced the same issue on my machine. I was able to connect to the internet via ethernet cable, and pull down the package that @Mason Pawsey mentioned in their answer.

I wasn't familiar with how to do that, so I found some help from this post by @chili555.

I was able to downgrade the package, and boot up like normal. However, there was still an entry in my /etc/network/interfaces file for eth0, and this would stop me from connecting via wifi. So I went into the file, and commented out everything under auto eth0 (in case i needed it later).

After i removed the entry, and restarted my computer, everything was good to go.

I hope this helps whoever comes to this page in the future.

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