Ubuntu
gdm package

gdm does not start due to symbol lookup error

Bug #476124 reported by Mirco Müller
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gdm (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: gdm

With latest updates of today (6.11.2009) for Ubuntu 9.10, gdm (2.28.-0ubuntu2) does not start up anymore. Trying to start it from a VT as root gives me the following error:

/usr/sbin/gdm-binary: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/gio/modules/libgiodbus.so: undefined symbol: g_desktop_app_info_launch_handler_get_type

Trying to look up that call in the GIO API-manual via devhelp did not yield any hit. Thus I wonder how this call can be used if it's not part of the gio library coming with Karmic.

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Mirco Müller (macslow) wrote :

Further investigation of this showed that I had a package called libwncksync-glib installed. The shared library /usr/lib/gio/modules/libgiodbus.so with the symbol lookup error is part of that package. gdm itself does not depend or link to any shared library provided by libwncksync-glib. Still this undefined symbol causes gdm not to start. I wonder if that's a design issue of GIO. Removing the package libwncksync-glib, which nothing depends on, solved the issue and got gdm back into working state.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

thank you for the update, closing the bug that's not a gdm issue but a local install one

Changed in gdm (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Invalid
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