[xml/sgml-pkgs] Bug#430610: xscreensaver-demo fails to start with libxml2 symbol lookup error

[Francesco Poli]

Package: libxml2
Version: 2.6.29.dfsg-1
Severity: important

After upgrading to libxml2 version 2.6.29.dfsg-1 on a box running lenny,
xscreensaver-demo stopped working.

Now, when I try to start it, it immediately exits with the following
error:

  $ xscreensaver-demo 
  xscreensaver-demo: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2: undefined symbol: �$D��"R�(��


What's wrong?


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.20-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages libxml2 depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.5-9      GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  zlib1g                        1:1.2.3-15 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages libxml2 recommends:
ii  xml-core                      0.11       XML infrastructure and XML catalog

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