Bug#636197: re Bug#636197

[James Vega]

On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 10:33:09AM +0100, Oliver Jeeves wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 01, 2011 at 07:19:06PM -0400, James Vega wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 01, 2011 at 12:25:32PM +0100, Oliver Jeeves wrote:
> > > On further investigation, it looks like gvim is trying to open the file:
> > > 
> > > /usr/lib/libgail.so
> > 
> > It doesn't do that here.  It opens
> > /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgailutil.so.18.
> > 
> 
> I'm back and have been able to look more closely at this.
> 
> It is actually looking for, and opening libgailutil.so.18, but then
> later is also trying to open libgail.so
> 
> I've attached an strace of running gvim -u NONE -U NONE
> 
> However, it turns out that if I try to run gvim as another user (root),
> it works, so there's something in my environment which is causing this
> to break.

It appears that this is a problem with the interaction between libgnome
and multiarch gtk.  libgnome is doing a manual lookup of the library
instead of using the function that's already been patched to look in
multiarch directories.  I've reassigned this to libgnome.

-- 
James
GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega <jamessan at debian.org>
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