Re: Something stopping Gimp loading

["Thomas H. George" <lists@tomgeorge.info>]

On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 03:11:24PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 17:47:41 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote:
> > On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 01:25:04PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > > On 05/17/08 13:00, Thomas H. George wrote:
> > > > Something I have installed stops Gimp from loading - that is the little
> > > > Gimp picture flashes on the screen briefly and then the load aborts.
> 
> [...]
> 
> > > Open a command window and run it from there.  Hopefully some useful
> > > error messages will appear.
> > > 
> > Right.  I opened a terminal window, tried to start Gimp, and got the
> > following message:
> > 
> > gimp: symbol lookup error: gimp: undefined symbol: g_dpgettext
> 
> This symbol is defined in libglib-2.0.so.0, which is part of the
> libglib2.0-0 package. Something is wrong with this package on your
> system, or you have a more general problem with your dynamic linker.
> Please post the output of the following commands:
> 
> nm -D /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 | grep g_dpgettext
> 
> ls -l /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so*
> 
> dpkg -l libglib2.0\* | awk '/^i/{print $1, $2}'
> 
> /sbin/ldconfig -pNX | grep libglib-2.0
> 

Script started on Sun 18 May 2008 09:28:05 AM EDT
tom@Phoenix:~$ nm _-D /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.s0.0o.0 | grep g_dpgettext
0000000000054180 T g_dpgettext
tom@Phoenix:~$ ls -l /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     23 2008-05-13 08:37 /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 -> libglib-2.0.so.0.1600.3
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 771320 2008-04-11 17:33 /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0.1600.3
tom@Phoenix:~$ dpkg -l libglib2.0\* | awk '/^i/{print $1, $2}'
ii libglib2.0-0
tom@Phoenix:~$ /sbin/ldconfig pNX | grep libglib-2.0
/sbin/ldconfig: relative path `pNX' used to build cache
tom@Phoenix:~$ exit

Script done on Sun 18 May 2008 09:33:29 AM EDT

Tom
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