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keepitsimpleengineer

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From: San Joaquin Valley, CA

Registered: 2012-06-25

Posts: 380

[SOLVED] gthumb fails to launch - Segmentation fault

This regularly used application failed at launch today

$ gthumb
(gthumb:3499): Gtk-WARNING **: 09:07:18.164: Failed to register client: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownMethod: Method "RegisterClient" with signature "ss" on interface "org.xfce.Session.Manager" doesn't exist
** (gthumb:3499): WARNING **: 09:07:18.277: Could not load the 'picasaweb' extension: Could not open the module “picasaweb”: /usr/lib/libwebkit2gtk-4.0.so.37: undefined symbol: soup_session_connect_async
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

Last edited by keepitsimpleengineer (2018-03-26 16:28:26)

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keepitsimpleengineer

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From: San Joaquin Valley, CA

Registered: 2012-06-25

Posts: 380

Re: [SOLVED] gthumb fails to launch - Segmentation fault

Solved by downgrading package webkit2gtk (2.20.0-1 => 2.18.6-1)

$ sudo pacman -U webkit2gtk-2.18.6-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
loading packages...
warning: downgrading package webkit2gtk (2.20.0-1 => 2.18.6-1)
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...
Package (1)  Old Version  New Version  Net Change
webkit2gtk   2.20.0-1     2.18.6-1       1.49 MiB
Total Installed Size:  116.53 MiB
Net Upgrade Size:        1.49 MiB

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Al Einstein: "Man soll die Dinge so einfach machen wie möglich ~ aber nicht einfacher." (Things should be as simple as possible ~ but not too simple.) ~ Al (Einstein) war ein Cousin von Albert, "Al" ist die Abkürzung für Aloysius

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

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Re: [SOLVED] gthumb fails to launch - Segmentation fault

That's not a fix, that's a temporary workaround.

It sounds like the problem is partial updates. What version of libsoup?