Bug#302213: libgtk2.0-bin: undefined symbol: g_assert_warning

[Marek W. Gutowski]

Josselin Mouette wrote:
  >
> This is certainly caused by a locally installed, older version of glib.
> 
> I have enough of these stupid bug reports. Why do users keep installing
> local versions just to fuck up their system?

I understand your irritation, but look below:

gutow:/home/gutow# dpkg -l glib*
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name           Version        Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
un  glibc          <none>         (no description available)
un  glibc-2.3.2.ds <none>         (no description available)
ii  glibc-doc      2.3.2.ds1-20   GNU C Library: Documentation
un  glibc-pic      <none>         (no description available)
un  glibc2         <none>         (no description available)
un  glibcdoc       <none>         (no description available)
gutow:/home/gutow#


so your guess is clearly incorrect.  My system is clean.  It is sarge,
installed from scratch and later upgraded many times, always using
'apt-get' mechanism.  Don't blame the users, please.  The troubles
started after one of such upgrades, but went unnoticed for some
time (I didn't know that some applications no longer start).
Trying to install glibc or glibc2 (is that what you meant as on
older version of glib?) produces the following messages:

gutow:/home/gutow# apt-get -s install glibc
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Package glibc is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package glibc has no installation candidate
gutow:/home/gutow# apt-get -s install glibc2
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Package glibc2 is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
However the following packages replace it:
   locales
E: Package glibc2 has no installation candidate

Therefore there IS a bug somewhere.

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