Bug#562074: symbol lookup error: undefined symbol: soup_content_sniffer_get_type

[Mike Hommey]

reassign 562074 libsoup2.4-1

On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 02:02:26PM +0100, Dominique Parisot wrote:
> Package: libwebkit-1.0-2
> Version: 1.1.17-2
> Severity: important
> Architecture: i386
> 
> 
> Yesterday, I have updated my lenny system (stable) to squeeze (testing).
> 
> When I launch epiphany web browser, it terminates with the following
> error message :
>    $ epiphany
>    epiphany-browser: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libwebkit-1.0.so.2:
>    undefined symbol: soup_content_sniffer_get_type

This sounds like libsoup shlibs is wrong.

Cheers,

Mike



> 
> ld returns the following error about libwebkit :
>   $ ld /usr/lib/libwebkit-1.0.so.2
>   ld: warning: cannot find entry symbol _start; not setting start address
>   /usr/lib/libwebkit-1.0.so.2: undefined reference to
> `soup_message_headers_get_one'
>   /usr/lib/libwebkit-1.0.so.2: undefined reference to
> `soup_auth_save_password'
>   /usr/lib/libwebkit-1.0.so.2: undefined reference to
> `soup_password_manager_get_type'
>   /usr/lib/libwebkit-1.0.so.2: undefined reference to
> `soup_auth_get_saved_password'
>   /usr/lib/libwebkit-1.0.so.2: undefined reference to
> `soup_auth_get_saved_users'
>   /usr/lib/libwebkit-1.0.so.2: undefined reference to
> `soup_content_sniffer_get_type'
>   /usr/lib/libwebkit-1.0.so.2: undefined reference to
> `soup_message_disable_feature'
> 
> 
> Here is a list of symbolic links in /usr/lib :
>   /usr/lib/libwebkit-1.0.so.2 -> libwebkit-1.0.so.2.13.0
>   /usr/lib/libsoup-2.4.so.1 -> libsoup-2.4.so.1.3.0
>   /usr/lib/libsoup-gnome-2.4.so.1 -> libsoup-gnome-2.4.so.1.3.0
> 
> These files come from libwebkit-1.0-2 and libsoup2.4-1 :
>   # dpkg -S /usr/lib/libwebkit-1.0.so.2
>   libwebkit-1.0-2: /usr/lib/libwebkit-1.0.so.2
>   # dpkg -S /usr/lib/libsoup-2.4.so.1.3.0
>   libsoup2.4-1: /usr/lib/libsoup-2.4.so.1.3.0
> 
> I have the following packages installed on my system :
>   - libwebkit-1.0-2       1.1.17-2
>   - libwebkit-1.0-common  1.1.17-2
>   - libsoup-gnome2.4-1    2.28.1-3
>   - libsoup2.4-1          2.28.1-3
> 
> I tried to uninstall and reinstall libwebkit and libsoup (and all
> depending packages) but I got the same error.
> 
> I'm using linux kernel 2.6.30-2-686 and libc6 2.10.2-2.
> 
> 
> 
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