Bug#636536: applications fail with multiarch libgtk2.0-0: libgail.so not found

[Michael Biebl]

clone 636536 -1
reassign -1 libgail-common
found -1 2.24.5-4
retitle -1 multiarch enabled libgail breaks libgnome2
severity -1 serious
block -1 by 636536
thanks

Am 03.08.2011 22:41, schrieb Roderich Schupp:
> Package: libgnome2-0
> Version: 2.32.1-1
> Severity: important
> 
> Start any application linked with libgnome2-0, e.g. dia-gnome or gvim
> from vim-gnome, while you have the new multiarch libgtk2.0-00 installed:
> 
>   (dia-gnome:4047): Gnome-WARNING **: Accessibility: failed to find module
>   'libgail' which is needed to make this application accessible
>   **
>   ERROR:accessible.c:556:spi_accessible_construct: assertion failed: (o)
>   Aborted
> 
> Reason is that libgnome2 can't find the GTK module libgail.so
> which is now in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gtk-2.0/modules/libgail.so.
> Note that when looking for accessibility modules libgnome does _not_
> use the glib module loading functions (which are patched to look
> both into the multiarch and "classic" directories). Instead it does
> its own search which doesn't know about multiarch.
> 

I haven't looked into this yet. But im cloning this bug for gtk+2.0 and marking
it as serious, so gtk+2.0 doesn't migrate to testing until this issue has been
investigated.

Michael
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