Re: Something stopping Gimp loading
On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 09:38:45 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote:
> 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.so.0 | grep g_dpgettext
> 0000000000054180 T g_dpgettext
OK, the symbol is defined.
> 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
Hmm, I have a /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so symlink (to the same *.1600.3
file) in addition to the one that your output shows.
> 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
That should have been "-pNX" there.
> tom@Phoenix:~$ exit
>
> Script done on Sun 18 May 2008 09:33:29 AM EDT
Please run the ldconfig command again with the correct syntax. I would
furthermore like to see the result of:
ldd `which gimp` | grep libglib-2.0
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