crash on startup with error message concerning givaro import

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SageMath had been running perfectly on my linux mint xfce install, until yesterday when it started crashing on startup with the error below:

ImportError: /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/sage/matrix/matrix_modn_sparse.cpython-38-x86_64-linux-gnu.so: undefined symbol: _ZNK6Givaro7IntegercvNSt7__cxx1112basic_stringIcSt11char_traitsIcESaIcEEEB5cxx11Ev

I tried reinstalling sage and libgivaro9, with no effect. downgrading libgivaro produced a different error. everything has been installed through the APT repository.

Here is the top of the crash report:

IPython post-mortem report
{'commit_hash': '<not found>',
 'commit_source': '(none found)',
 'default_encoding': 'utf-8',
 'ipython_path': '/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/IPython',
 'ipython_version': '7.13.0',
 'os_name': 'posix',
 'platform': 'Linux-5.4.0-89-generic-x86_64-with-glibc2.29',
 'sys_executable': '/usr/bin/python3',
 'sys_platform': 'linux',
 'sys_version': '3.8.10 (default, Sep 28 2021, 16:10:42) \n[GCC 9.3.0]'}