evolution has undefined symbol in newest libwebkit2gtk

[Lloyd Kvam]

evolution: symbol lookup error: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libwebkit2gtk-4.0.so.37: undefined symbol: gbm_bo_create_with_modifiers2

The libwebkit2gtk version is
libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37_2.44.0-0ubuntu0.22.04.1_amd64.deb

[Lloyd Kvam (u-launchpad-venix-com)]

This error has been occurring since updating to the latest version of libwebkit2gtk

[Lloyd Kvam (u-launchpad-venix-com)]

I received this explanation from webkit.org:

 Comment # 1 on bug 273002 from Michael Catanzaro

Your installed version of mesa is older than the version WebKitGTK was built against. You'll need to update mesa, or report a bug to whoever provides your WebKitGTK.

[Viraniac (viraniac)]

I noticed this issue as well. I have verified that libgbm provided by mesa does have the function in the latest available package. In my case I am running mali drivers on one of my SBCs and its the libmali.so file that provides libgbm.so for me. The libmali.so file lacked the gbm_bo_create_with_modifiers2 function. I created a shim library based on the code from XWayland that solved the problem for me.

The code for shim library can be find here - https://github.com/viraniac/mali-debs/blob/783569da2c73485db24c54ce4d7d0813d308f2a5/noble/arm64/VIM4/wayland/src/gbm_bo_create_with_modifiers2.c

[Lloyd Kvam (u-launchpad-venix-com)]

gnucash also suffers from the same problem

gnucash: symbol lookup error: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libwebkit2gtk-4.0.so.37: undefined symbol: gbm_bo_create_with_modifiers2

This gets more critical for me personally. There are alternatives for handling email. I have no easy replacement for gnucash.

[Lloyd Kvam (u-launchpad-venix-com)]

$ ldd -r $(which gnucash) | tail
<snipped libraries>
undefined symbol: gbm_bo_create_with_modifiers2 (/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libwebkit2gtk-4.0.so.37)
undefined symbol: gbm_bo_get_fd_for_plane (/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libwebkit2gtk-4.0.so.37)

So there are two missing symbols. The output for evolution shows the same symbols.

[Viraniac (viraniac)]

Lloyd, are you using any proprietary graphics drivers? Also what is the output of

$ ls -al /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgbm.*

[Lloyd Kvam (u-launchpad-venix-com)]

Viraniac,

Thanks for your interest.

I am not using any proprietary graphics drivers.

# ls -al /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgbm*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Jan 24 07:01 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgbm.so.1 -> libgbm.so.1.0.0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 64720 Jan 24 07:01 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgbm.so.1.0.0

# dpkg --list libgbm1
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-==============-=========================-============-========================================
ii libgbm1:amd64 23.2.1-1ubuntu3.1~22.04.2 amd64 generic buffer management API -- runtime

So I think that's the latest version from the repo and there are no installation issues.

[Lloyd Kvam (u-launchpad-venix-com)]

The dpkg --status output is more readable

# dpkg --status libgbm1
Package: libgbm1
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: libs
Installed-Size: 148
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <email address hidden>
Architecture: amd64
Multi-Arch: same
Source: mesa
Version: 23.2.1-1ubuntu3.1~22.04.2
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.34), libdrm2 (>= 2.4.75), libexpat1 (>= 2.0.1), libwayland-server0 (>= 1.15.0), libxcb-randr0
Description: generic buffer management API -- runtime
 This package contains the GBM buffer management library. It provides a
 mechanism for allocating buffers for graphics rendering tied to Mesa.
 .
 GBM is intended to be used as a native platform for EGL on drm or openwfd.
Homepage: https://mesa3d.org/
Original-Maintainer: Debian X Strike Force <email address hidden>

My guess is that a dependency between libwebkit2gtk and libgbm1 was not configured into the package management configuration.

[Lloyd Kvam (u-launchpad-venix-com)]

Would updating to Ubuntu 23.10 be a likely fix? (I hope this the right place to ask)

[Marc Deslauriers (mdeslaur)]

That is pretty odd, I can't reproduce this issue on jammy.

what's the output of "ldd /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libwebkit2gtk-4.0.so.37"?

[Lloyd Kvam (u-launchpad-venix-com)]

I think this is the line you (AND I) want to see
 libgbm.so.1 => /opt/amdgpu/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgbm.so.1 (0x00007f5edb3a8000)

Thanks. I looked past that.

I had an old amdgpu library that had been locally installed gumming up the works.

I have removed the old amdgpu packages and am close to working normally.

Thanks for pointing me in the correct direction.

[Lloyd Kvam (u-launchpad-venix-com)]

Lloyd had a mis-configured system when he filed this bug.

[Lloyd Kvam (u-launchpad-venix-com)]

So now
# ldd /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libwebkit2gtk-4.0.so.37 | grep libgbm
 libgbm.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgbm.so.1 (0x00007fd3deade000)

shows that I am using the correct libgbm and all is well.

[José Domínguez (pepemanu)]

Having the same issue. How did you manage to solve it?

[Lloyd Kvam (u-launchpad-venix-com)]

See comment #10 and my #11 and #13 responses

Years ago I installed an amdgpu package from an extrnal source and had forgotten about it.
ldd showed that libwebkit2gtk was referencing libgbm from /opt/*
The proper package is in /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/

So I used synaptic to remove the manually installed amdgpu package. That got me back in sync with the proper Ubuntu/Debian packages which resolved my problems.