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riczan

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Registered: 2010-12-08

Posts: 14

symbol lookup error /usr/lib/libXi.so.6

Dear All,

After a recent update, I have problems with libXi. I get the following error while trying to plot something with gnuplot:

gnuplot: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libXi.so.6: undefined symbol: XESetWireToEventCookie.

I get a similar error when trying to run a java application:

java: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libXi.so.6: undefined symbol: XESetWireToEventCookie

Something looks broken. I tried downgrading libXi to the previous version 1.3.2-1:

pacman -U libxi-1.3.2-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz

but that didn't help. I'm now back on version 1.4.0-1

Any suggestions are greatly appreciated. This is my first post to this forum so bare with me. I've been a gentoo user for quite sometime but I'm trying a binary distro for obvious reasons.

This also looks like a bug for I haven't done anything strange. This is a newish installation and all I do every week or so is pacman -Syu as suggested in the beginner handbook. I'm surprised no one else has posted this problem... is it really just me?. There are some old post on this issue but there was no solution there other than downgrading which I have already tried.

I've just realized that not even okular works!!! Why am I being punished?

okular: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libXi.so.6: undefined symbol: XESetWireToEventCookie

Thanks.

Last edited by riczan (2010-12-08 21:40:29)