gimp: symbol lookup error: gimp: undefined symbol: gegl_param_multiline_get_type

[3vi1]

On fully up to date 16.10 installs, gimp no longer starts.

1. Run 'gimp' from console.
2. Console returns: "gimp: symbol lookup error: gimp: undefined symbol: gegl_param_multiline_get_type" and exits, instead of starting the app.

The installed package/version of gimp is 2.8.16-1ubuntu3. Gimp was previously working fine on this install, so my guess is the symbol was deprecated/removed in a new version of some gegl lib.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.10
Package: gimp 2.8.16-1ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-30.49-generic 4.4.13
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-30-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.2-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Fri Jul 15 11:41:37 2016
SourcePackage: gimp
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Marcel (beckerm-br8-r)]

Just out of curiosity, what GPU are you using? I'm on Intel integrated HD 3000 with the default open source drivers, fresh installation of Ubuntu 16.10.

[Xavier Guillot (valeryan-24)]

Same here with a new install of Ubuntu Yakkety and a Radeon HD 7700 Series GPU (Gallium 0.4 on AMD CAPE VERDE DRM 2.43.0, LLVM 3.8.0), seems using proprietary Intel microcode firmware...

[choops135 (choops135)]

Same problem for me. It continues after new kernel 4.4.0.31 installed today.
I'm on nvidia geforce 610Ti with open source driver (nouveau) ... so it seems to be independent of the GPU.

[Paolo Rotolo (paolorotolo)]

I can reproduce it on Ubuntu 16.10 and Radeon HD 7790 (Gallium 0.4 on AMD BONAIRE (DRM 2.43.0, LLVM 3.8.0).

[George Shuklin (george-shuklin)]

For those who affected - you can downgrade gimp a bit:

apt-cache policy gimp

choose older version and install it (I showing example with exact versions, your available version may differ):

sudo apt-get install gimp=2.8.16-1ubuntu1.1

[Michael Schumacher (schumaml)]

https://git.gnome.org/browse/gegl/commit/gegl/property-types/gegl-paramspecs.c?id=38e6545f785ba614f07f71a62fc39086dbee5a9c

Note that GIMP 2.8 depends on gegl-0.2 by default, using gegl-0.3 is a custom change introduced by Debian.

[3vi1 (launchpad-net-eternaldusk)]

This is fixed in the latest gimp package (2.8.16-2.2ubuntu1)

[Alex_ander (ks-alexandr)]

confirm - the bug is fixed

[Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd)]

Marking fix released based on the last two comments.