[xml/sgml-pkgs] Bug#546708: virt-manager: doesn't start due to libxml2 version problems

[Thomas Koch]

I'm sorry. I had an old self-compiled libxml2 in /usr/local/lib. After 
deleting this one, virt-manager starts now.

How do I close bugs? Please close this one!

Best regards, Thomas

> Hi Thomas,
> 
> On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 10:54:59AM +0200, Thomas Koch wrote:
> > Package: virt-manager
> > Version: 0.8.0-1
> > Severity: important
> >
> > Trying to start virt-manager I get an error window:
> >
> > Fehler beim Starten des Virtual Machine Managers:
> > /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.5/libxml2mod.so: symbol xmlFirstElementChild,
> > version LIBXML2_2.7.3 not defined in file libxml2.so.2 with link time
> > reference
> 
> (snip)
> 
> If I understand correctly your bug report, either when using libxml2
> 2.7.4.dfsg-1 or 2.7.3.dfsg-2.1, virt-manager fails for you, right?
> 
> This sounds like your may have some other (old) libxml2.so.2 file
> getting in the way. Can you send the output for the following command:
> ldd /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.5/libxml2mod.so
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Mike
> 
Thomas Koch, http://www.koch.ro