relocation error: undefined symbol

Jack Howarth howarth@bromo.msbb.uc.edu
Thu Sep 26 22:37:00 GMT 2002


Jakub,
   Now that the segfaults are eliminated from prelinked evolution,
I still have one other question. On both entropy and my debian ppc
sid machine, when I run either unprelinked or prelinked evolution
with 'LD_DEBUG=files' I notice the following (apparently non-fatal
error messages)....

21545:	file=/usr/lib/gdk-imlib1/libimlib-png.so;  generating link map
21545:	  dynamic: 0x0e7ad5ac  base: 0x0e79b000   size: 0x00012908
21545:	    entry: 0x0e79bf10  phdr: 0x0e79b034  phnum:          3
21545:	
21545:	
21545:	calling init: /usr/lib/gdk-imlib1/libimlib-png.so
21545:	
21545:	opening file=/usr/lib/gdk-imlib1/libimlib-png.so; opencount == 1
21545:	
21545:	/usr/lib/libgmodule-1.2.so.0: error: relocation error: undefined symbol: g_module_check_init (fatal)
21545:	/usr/lib/libgmodule-1.2.so.0: error: relocation error: undefined symbol: g_module_unload (fatal)
21545:	file=/usr/lib/gdk-pixbuf/loaders/libpixbufloader-png.so;  generating link map
21545:	  dynamic: 0x0e789f10  base: 0x0e778000   size: 0x0001226c
21545:	    entry: 0x0e778fa4  phdr: 0x0e778034  phnum:          3
21545:	
21545:	
21545:	calling init: /usr/lib/gdk-pixbuf/loaders/libpixbufloader-png.so
21545:	
21545:	opening file=/usr/lib/gdk-pixbuf/loaders/libpixbufloader-png.so; opencount == 1
21545:	
21545:	/usr/lib/libgmodule-1.2.so.0: error: relocation error: undefined symbol: g_module_check_init (fatal)
21545:	/usr/lib/libgmodule-1.2.so.0: error: relocation error: undefined symbol: g_module_unload (fatal)
21545:	/usr/lib/libgmodule-1.2.so.0: error: relocation error: undefined symbol: gdk_pixbuf__png_image_load_xpm_data (fatal)
21545:	/usr/lib/libgmodule-1.2.so.0: error: relocation error: undefined symbol: gdk_pixbuf__png_image_load_animation (fatal)
21545:	file=/usr/lib/gdk-pixbuf/loaders/libpixbufloader-xpm.so;  generating link map
21545:	  dynamic: 0x0e7674e0  base: 0x0e755000   size: 0x0001285c
21545:	    entry: 0x0e756020  phdr: 0x0e755034  phnum:          3
21545:	
21545:	
21545:	calling init: /usr/lib/gdk-pixbuf/loaders/libpixbufloader-xpm.so
21545:	
21545:	opening file=/usr/lib/gdk-pixbuf/loaders/libpixbufloader-xpm.so; opencount == 1
21545:	
21545:	/usr/lib/libgmodule-1.2.so.0: error: relocation error: undefined symbol: g_module_check_init (fatal)
21545:	/usr/lib/libgmodule-1.2.so.0: error: relocation error: undefined symbol: g_module_unload (fatal)
21545:	/usr/lib/libgmodule-1.2.so.0: error: relocation error: undefined symbol: gdk_pixbuf__xpm_image_load_animation (fatal)


Are these relocation error messages significant and do they imply a build,
devtool, glibc problem or what? Thanks in advance for any insights.
                                      Jack



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