Bug#535952: xprint: Xprt can't find symbol PrinterFontRegisterFpeFunctions and fails to start

[Phil Endecott <spam_from_debian_bugs_11@chezphil.org>]

Package: xprint
Version: 2:1.4.2-11
Severity: normal


Hi,

I've just installed xprint 2:1.4.2-11 and it fails to start:

# /etc/init.d/xprint start
/etc/init.d/xprint: Old server registry found, cleaning-up...
Stopping Xprint servers: Xprt.
Starting Xprint servers: Xprt.

No error message there, or in any log file that I can find, but there 
is no Xprt process running.  I try this:

# /usr/bin/Xprt :64
_XSERVTransSocketOpenCOTSServer: Unable to open socket for inet6
_XSERVTransOpen: transport open failed for inet6/haiti:64
_XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: failed to open listener for inet6
No matching visual for __GLcontextMode with visual class = 0 (32775), nplanes = 8
expected keysym, got XF86KbdLightOnOff: line 70 of pc
expected keysym, got XF86KbdBrightnessDown: line 71 of pc
expected keysym, got XF86KbdBrightnessUp: line 72 of pc
/usr/bin/Xprt: symbol lookup error: /usr/bin/Xprt: undefined symbol: 
PrinterFontRegisterFpeFunctions

I believe the last error is the important one.  As an aside, it would 
be really great if the init.d script could not hide this error in 
/dev/null, please; that wasted an hour.

Running nm -D on another machine suggests that perhaps the missing 
PrinterFontRegisterFpeFunctions should be defined in 
/usr/lib/libXfont.so.1:

# nm -D /usr/lib/libXfont.so.1 | grep PrinterFontRegisterFpeFunctions
0000d880 T PrinterFontRegisterFpeFunctions

That machine has libxfont1 version 1:1.3.3-1.
This machine where it doesn't work has libxfont1 version 1:1.4.0-1,
which seems to be the newest version, and the symbol is not defined:

# nm -D /usr/lib/libXfont.so.1 | grep PrinterFontRegisterFpeFunctions
#

So my guess is that the current libxfont1 is too new for the current 
xprint and/or the current xprint is too old for the current libxfont1.

Any thoughts?


Phil.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-rc3
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages xprint depends on:
ii  libc6                  2.9-8             GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-1-3            1.2.1-1           simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libfontenc1            1:1.0.1-6         X11 font encoding library
ii  libfreetype6           2.3.7-1           FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libhal1                0.5.11-2          Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libpixman-1-0          0.14.0-1          pixel-manipulation library for X a
ii  libx11-6               2:1.2.1-1         X11 client-side library
ii  libxau6                1:1.0.1-2         X11 authorisation library
ii  libxdmcp6              1:1.0.1-2         X11 Display Manager Control Protoc
ii  libxfont1              1:1.4.0-1         X11 font rasterisation library
ii  xprint-common          2:1.4.2-11        Xprint - the X11 print system (con
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages xprint recommends:
ii  xprint-utils         7.0.0+cvs20040414-4 utilities for Xprint, the X11 prin

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