OMG!
I've been smashing my head against the table for the past month because I missed read the directions and neglected to keep Etch distro in the apt source list and force install the old perl...?
I can't wait to get home and test it on my sandbox and if it works I owe you people a drink, Jiménez and Cafuego

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Hours later...
I added the Etch source list to apt
Code:
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ lenny main
deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ lenny main
deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main
deb http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile lenny/volatile main
deb-src http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile lenny/volatile main
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ etch main
deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ etch main
deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib
Code:
aptitude install perl=5.8.8-7etch6 perl-base=5.8.8-7etch6 perl-modules=5.8.8-7etch6 perl-doc=5.8.8-7etch6
Code:
for p in perl perl-base perl-modules perl-doc liblocale-gettext-perl libtext-charwidth-perl libtext-iconv-perl libtext-wrapi18n-perl; do echo "${p} hold" | sudo dpkg --set-selections; done This got me past verifying the DB...
Code:
Do you want to verify message store database integrity? [Y]
Verifying integrity of message store databases. This may take a while.
Starting mysqld...done.
mysqld is alive
No errors found
mysqld is alive
Stopping mysqld... done.
Installed packages...
Code:
Installing packages
zimbra-core......zimbra-core_6.0.4_GA_2038.DEBIAN5_i386.deb...done
zimbra-ldap......zimbra-ldap_6.0.4_GA_2038.DEBIAN5_i386.deb...done
zimbra-logger......zimbra-logger_6.0.4_GA_2038.DEBIAN5_i386.deb...done
zimbra-mta......zimbra-mta_6.0.4_GA_2038.DEBIAN5_i386.deb...done
zimbra-snmp......zimbra-snmp_6.0.4_GA_2038.DEBIAN5_i386.deb...done
zimbra-store......zimbra-store_6.0.4_GA_2038.DEBIAN5_i386.deb...done
zimbra-apache......zimbra-apache_6.0.4_GA_2038.DEBIAN5_i386.deb...done
zimbra-spell......zimbra-spell_6.0.4_GA_2038.DEBIAN5_i386.deb...done
zimbra-memcached......zimbra-memcached_6.0.4_GA_2038.DEBIAN5_i386.deb...done
zimbra-proxy......zimbra-proxy_6.0.4_GA_2038.DEBIAN5_i386.deb...done Started configuring...
Code:
Setting defaults from saved config in /opt/zimbra/.saveconfig/config.save
...
Restoring existing configuration file from /opt/zimbra/.saveconfig/localconfig.xml...done
Then crapped in my face again...
Code:
/usr/bin/perl: symbol lookup error: /opt/zimbra/zimbramon/lib/i486-linux-gnu-thread-multi/auto/IO/IO.so: undefined symbol: Perl_Istack_sp_ptr