Bug#894763: libglib2.0-0: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libgobject-2.0.so.0: undefined symbol: g_date_copy

[Axel Beckert]

Hi Michael,

Michael Biebl wrote:
> Do you have an idea, where this file might have come from?

On a first thought: No. The package is no package I installed on
purpose, it came in by dependencies and I surely didn't fiddle around
with its configuration (if it has one).

On a second thought: I know that in the very beginning of that system
(i.e. during 2015) I had issues with the SD card the system runs off
and I at least replaced the SD card once, maybe twice. IIRC the
original SD card went readonly and I dd'ed its contents onto a new one
and ran fsck (offline). While that in theory could cause stray files,
IMHO especially dpkg is rather good in keeping things consistent.

So I slightly doubt that this is the cause for this issue. On the
other hand, it seems the best explanation currently available.

> So it looks like a local misconfiguration which went unnoticed so far as
> /lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libglib-2.0.so.0.5* took precedence over
> /lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libglib-2.0.so.0.4200.1

I have no idea what kind of "configuration" could be involved here.

> I guess there is nothing really the libglib2.0-0 package can do about
> this. Do you agree?

If I'm the only one who happens to have this issue, I'm fine with
closing this as unreproducible.

> As soon as you clean up the stray
> /lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libglib-2.0.so.0.4200.1 and run ldconfig, the
> problem should go away?

No, because there's also a symlink to it which (according to the
timestamp) seem to have been created by maintainer scripts of this
package:

6080 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     23 Apr  4 09:03 /lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libglib-2.0.so.0 -> libglib-2.0.so.0.4200.1

Not sure how I should clean up that one. Can I safely delete it, too?

		Regards, Axel
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