Shotwell cannot resolve gexiv2_initialize symbol

[Bruno Girin]

Following the upgrade to Shotwell 0.12.1 last night on Precise amd64, Shotwell doesn't start anymore. When starting from the command line it complains about a missing gexiv2 symbol:

$ shotwell
shotwell: symbol lookup error: shotwell: undefined symbol: gexiv2_initialize

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: shotwell 0.12.1-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-21.34-generic 3.2.13
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-21-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Apr 2 20:21:58 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Beta amd64 (20110901)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
 TERM=xterm
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: shotwell
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-02-11 (51 days ago)

[Bruno Girin (brunogirin)]

I realised after filing this bug that I probably had a locally compiled version of gexiv2 so I removed the locally compiled library and tried to run Shotwell again, at which point I got this error:

$ shotwell
shotwell: error while loading shared libraries: libgexiv2.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

And indeed, if I check the libraries installed on the machine, here is what I get:

$ ls /usr/lib | grep gexiv
libgexiv2.a
libgexiv2.so
libgexiv2.so.1
libgexiv2.so.1.0.0

[Lucas Beeler (lucas-yorba)]

Bruno,

Since you're a pro user, I'd recommend checking out the latest gexiv2
source from git://git.yorba.org/gexiv2, building from source, and
doing a sudo make install. I noticed that on my dev machine I had
several versions of gexiv2 in /usr/lib and /usr/local/lib. But
compiling and installing from source ensures that the latest version
of the so will be placed in /usr/local/lib, which, given the
LD_LIBRARY_PATH on Ubuntu, should be searched first.

Lucas

On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 12:30 PM, Bruno Girin <email address hidden> wrote:
> I realised after filing this bug that I probably had a locally compiled
> version of gexiv2 so I removed the locally compiled library and tried to
> run Shotwell again, at which point I got this error:
>
> $ shotwell
> shotwell: error while loading shared libraries: libgexiv2.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
>
> And indeed, if I check the libraries installed on the machine, here is
> what I get:
>
> $ ls /usr/lib | grep gexiv
> libgexiv2.a
> libgexiv2.so
> libgexiv2.so.1
> libgexiv2.so.1.0.0
>
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> Title:
>  Shotwell cannot resolve gexiv2_initialize symbol
>
> Status in “shotwell” package in Ubuntu:
>  New
>
> Bug description:
>  Following the upgrade to Shotwell 0.12.1 last night on Precise amd64,
>  Shotwell doesn't start anymore. When starting from the command line it
>  complains about a missing gexiv2 symbol:
>
>  $ shotwell
>  shotwell: symbol lookup error: shotwell: undefined symbol: gexiv2_initialize
>
>  ProblemType: Bug
>  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
>  Package: shotwell 0.12.1-0ubuntu1
>  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-21.34-generic 3.2.13
>  Uname: Linux 3.2.0-21-generic x86_64
>  ApportVersion: 2.0-0ubuntu2
>  Architecture: amd64
>  Date: Mon Apr  2 20:21:58 2012
>  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Beta amd64 (20110901)
>  ProcEnviron:
>   LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
>   TERM=xterm
>   LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
>   SHELL=/bin/bash
>  SourcePackage: shotwell
>  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-02-11 (51 days ago)
>
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