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blackdev1l

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Registered: 2014-06-12

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GTK apps crashes because of symbol lookup error

I had a clean up yesterday and probably something went wrong, i can't open apps which have gtk as dependency.

error from firefox: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0: undefined symbol: g_type_check_instance_is_fundamentally_a

I tried to reinstall firefox, gtk, clean pacman cache, but nothing works.

dockland

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2015-06-06

Posts: 861

Re: GTK apps crashes because of symbol lookup error

I had a clean up yesterday and probably something went wrong, i can't open apps which have gtk as dependency.

error from firefox: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0: undefined symbol: g_type_check_instance_is_fundamentally_a

I tried to reinstall firefox, gtk, clean pacman cache, but nothing works.

What do you mean with "clean up"? What exactly did you clean?

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blackdev1l

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Registered: 2014-06-12

Posts: 14

Re: GTK apps crashes because of symbol lookup error

I had a clean up yesterday and probably something went wrong, i can't open apps which have gtk as dependency.

error from firefox: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0: undefined symbol: g_type_check_instance_is_fundamentally_a

I tried to reinstall firefox, gtk, clean pacman cache, but nothing works.

What do you mean with "clean up"? What exactly did you clean?

I did pacman -Qdttq

dockland

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2015-06-06

Posts: 861

Re: GTK apps crashes because of symbol lookup error

I had a clean up yesterday and probably something went wrong, i can't open apps which have gtk as dependency.

error from firefox: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0: undefined symbol: g_type_check_instance_is_fundamentally_a

I tried to reinstall firefox, gtk, clean pacman cache, but nothing works.

What do you mean with "clean up"? What exactly did you clean?

I did pacman -Qdttq

I read on the Wiki

"Note: Since pacman version 4.2.0 only true orphans are listed. To make pacman also list packages which are only optionally required by another package, pass the -t/--unrequired flag twice:
$ pacman -Qdttq
Use this carefully, as it is not taken into account whether the package is an optional dependency and therefore bears the risk to remove packages which actually are not real orphans."

I would reinstall Arch totally. At least to base install and begin again.

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blackdev1l

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Registered: 2014-06-12

Posts: 14

Re: GTK apps crashes because of symbol lookup error

I am stupid

WorMzy

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Re: GTK apps crashes because of symbol lookup error

I would reinstall Arch totally. At least to base install and begin again

What, why? Just check pacman.log and reinstall what was removed (with --asdeps). If that is indeed the cause of the problem.

Last edited by WorMzy (2015-11-05 19:39:46)

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blackdev1l

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Registered: 2014-06-12

Posts: 14

Re: GTK apps crashes because of symbol lookup error

I would reinstall Arch totally. At least to base install and begin again

What, why? Just check pacman.log and reinstall what was removed (with --asdeps). If that is indeed the cause of the problem.

I'm trying that now but it is really diffifcult which package made the mess. :\