[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#886325: dbus daemon does not start with error "undefined symbol: XML_SetHashSalt"

[Alberto Brosich]

On Thu, 2018-01-04 at 18:28 +0000, Simon McVittie wrote:
> On Thu, 04 Jan 2018 at 14:37:53 +0100, Alberto Brosich wrote:
> > dbus-daemon[1350]: /usr/bin/dbus-daemon: symbol lookup error:
> > /usr/bin/dbus-daemon: undefined symbol: XML_SetHashSalt
> 
> ...
> > ii  libexpat1:amd64                            2.2.0-2+deb9u1
> 
> According to /var/lib/dpkg/info/libexpat1:amd64.symbols on my stable
> system, libexpat1 has provided that symbol since version 2.1~beta3,
> which
> is older than oldoldstable. Do you have an outdated copy of
> libexpat.so.1
> in /usr/local/lib or some similar location?

Yes,
I should have thought about it.
ldd showed that dbus-daemon used an old libexpat1 of another software.
I changed the order in /etc/ld.so.conf.d and now all works fine.

I do not know why it happened because the machine is very stable and I
apply only security updates, and I do not update the guilty software
for years.

Please accept my apologies for wasting your time.

Many thanks for the help.

Alberto

> 
>     smcv