Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 141998
symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libgnomevfs-2.so.0: undefined symbol: xmlNewTextReaderFilename
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:10:56 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041111 Firefox/1.0 Description of problem: While I login I get the message There was an error starting the GNOME Settings Daemon. Some things, such as themes, sounds, or background settings may not work correctly. The Settings Daemon restarted too many times. The last error message was: Child process did not give an error message, unknown failure occurred GNOME will still try to restart the Settings Daemon next time you log in. I have attached /tmp/xses-michal.ADRqWc which contain messages like Warning: program compiled against libxml 206 using older 204. I submitted this as a bug Bug 160370: Gnome Settings Daemon failure in http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=160370 and the response was This is a distribution problem. See "Warning: program compiled against libxml 206 using older 204" You need to update the libxml2 package. The libxml2 are the most recent [michal@ml-cvu ~]$ rpm -qa | grep libxml2 libxml2-python-2.6.16-3 libxml2-2.6.16-3 libxml2-devel-2.6.16-3 The only solution to this problem is to back up user's directory, delete user/recreate user, and restore data. But after a few logouts/logins I get the above message on the desktop and the warnigs in /tmp/xses file. This problem occurs in my default user account. I was not able to reproduce it in other accounts which I own on the same machine. When I try to invoke [michal@ml-cvu ~]$ gedit gedit: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libgtksourceview-1.0.so.0: undefined symbol: xmlNewTextReaderFilename This problem seems to be related to FC3. I did not have it in the previous versions starting from RH Linux 9 and upgrading to FC1, and FC2. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): libxml2-2.6.16-3 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Create new user 2. Login 3. Logout Repetitively, login/logout, reboot Actual Results: [michal@ml-cvu ~]$ evolution evolution: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libgnomevfs-2.so.0: undefined symbol: xmlNewTextReaderFilename [michal@ml-cvu ~]$ gedit gedit: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libgtksourceview-1.0.so.0: undefined symbol: xmlNewTextReaderFilename Expected Results: I should not have to have above errors. Additional info: Linux ml-cvu.wustl.edu 2.6.9-1.681_FC3 #1 Thu Nov 18 15:10:10 EST 2004 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
Created attachment 107968 [details] /tmp/xses-michal.ADRqWc
Seems relatively clear to me that you have an old libxml2-2.4.x shared library laying around in your LD_LIBRARY_PATH and taking predecedence over the system 2.6.16 library. Use "ldd evolution" to find out what libxml2.so.2 is is using and fix this. This does not look like a fedora bug, but IMHO and user or system setting error. If ldd indicates that the libxml2 shared library used comes from a Fedora core package, please reopen the bug indicating what package provided the libxml2.so.2 library generating the problem. Daniel
Thank you, Daniel. I have ActiveTcl and ldd /usr/bin/evolution gives libxml2.so.2 => /usr/local/ActiveTcl/lib/libxml2.so.2 (0x00a43000) Michal
Okidoc, I think it's the second time the ActiveTcl generated some mess, I should alk to them, but over the mailing-list at gnome.org. You should also open a bug on their side to track this down, in the meantime I think this one can be safely closed. thanks for the feedback, Daniel