Bug#1141660: zathura fails to start: undefined symbol gst_play_config_set_loop

[Sebastian Ramacher]

Control: reassign -1 libgtk-4-1 4.22.4+ds-1

On 2026-07-08 09:57:28 +0200, Mirek Kratochvil wrote:
> Package: zathura
> Version: 2026.07.02-3
> Severity: important
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> zathura in testing and unstable seems to suffer some linking issues, crashing
> before startup with message:
> 
> zathura: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgtk-4.so.1: undefined symbol: gst_play_config_set_loop

This is not an issue with zathura. So reassigning. I guess that this is
the typical case of an old installation of gstreamer in /usr/local.

Cheers

> 
> I tested versions 2026.07.02-1 and 2026.07.02-3 .
> 
> This looks to me vaguely similar to a situation with gajim in #1130014 , but I
> was unable to fix this by applying the same dependency change. Might be the
> case that this is actually a problem of libgtk-4-1, but I found I don't have
> other gtk4 apps to bisect.
> 
> In case some debug information is needed to solve this, please let me know.
> 
> -mk
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: forky/sid
>   APT prefers testing-debug
>   APT policy: (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'unstable')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> Foreign Architectures: i386
> 
> Kernel: Linux 7.0.13+deb14-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
> Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
> LSM: AppArmor: enabled
> 
> Versions of packages zathura depends on:
> ii  libc6                2.42-17
> ii  libcairo2            1.18.4-3+b1
> ii  libgirara5           2026.02.04-4
> ii  libglib2.0-0t64      2.88.2-1
> ii  libgraphene-1.0-0    1.10.8-5+b2
> ii  libgtk-4-1           4.22.4+ds-1
> ii  libjson-glib-1.0-0   1.10.8+ds-2+b1
> ii  libmagic1t64         1:5.47-4
> ii  libpango-1.0-0       1.58.0-1
> ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0  1.58.0-1
> ii  libseccomp2          2.6.0-2+b1
> ii  libsqlite3-0         3.46.1-9+b1
> ii  libsynctex2          2026.20260303.78225+ds-4
> ii  libxxhash0           0.8.3-2+b2
> ii  zathura-pdf-poppler  2026.05.10-1+b1
> 
> zathura recommends no packages.
> 
> Versions of packages zathura suggests:
> ii  firefox [www-browser]             152.0.5~build1
> ii  links2 [www-browser]              2.29-2+b4
> ii  lynx [www-browser]                2.9.3-2
> ii  surf [www-browser]                2.1+git20250419-1
> ii  ungoogled-chromium [www-browser]  149.0.7827.196-1mx25
> pn  zathura-cb                        <none>
> pn  zathura-djvu                      <none>
> pn  zathura-ps                        <none>
> 
> -- no debconf information

-- 
Sebastian Ramacher