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neocat

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Registered: 2022-09-16

Posts: 25

[SOLVED] Kile crashes with symbol lookup error

Kile crashes after with a message

$ kile
kile: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libKF6JobWidgets.so.6: undefined symbol: _ZNK4KJob11elapsedTimeEv

here is the pacman -Qi kile output

Name            : kile
Version         : 2.9.94-1
Description     : A user friendly TeX/LaTeX frontend for KDE
Architecture    : x86_64
URL             : https://apps.kde.org/kile/
Licenses        : GPL-2.0-or-later
Groups          : None
Provides        : None
Depends On      : gcc-libs  glibc  kcodecs  kcolorscheme  kcompletion  kconfig  kconfigwidgets  kcoreaddons  kcrash  kdbusaddons  kguiaddons  ki18n
                  kiconthemes  kio  kparts  kservice  ktexteditor  ktextwidgets  kwidgetsaddons  kwindowsystem  kxmlgui  okular  perl  poppler-qt6
                  qt6-5compat  qt6-base  qt6-declarative  texlive-basic
Optional Deps   : imagemagick: for some file type conversions [installed]
                  konsole: embedded terminal [installed]
Required By     : None
Optional For    : None
Conflicts With  : None
Replaces        : None
Installed Size  : 19.76 MiB
Packager        : Antonio Rojas <arojas@archlinux.org>
Build Date      : Mon 18 Mar 2024 01:23:33 AM MSK
Install Date    : Sat 13 Dec 2025 12:06:33 AM MSK
Install Reason  : Explicitly installed
Install Script  : No
Validated By    : Signature

I've tried to reinstall kjobwidgets, which is a dependency of kio, but it didn't help

Last edited by neocat (2025-12-13 17:38:50)

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

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Re: [SOLVED] Kile crashes with symbol lookup error

Reinstalling a package shouldn't do anything.

What version of kcoreaddons?

neocat

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Registered: 2022-09-16

Posts: 25

Re: [SOLVED] Kile crashes with symbol lookup error

Thanks, you a right. I had kcoreaddons5 package installed instead of kcoreaddons.
I installed kcoreaddons and now it's working