stellarium does not start up

[René Brandenburger]

Binary package hint: stellarium

steps to reproduce:

* open terminal
* type stellarium <Enter>
-> stellarium: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libQtScript.so.4: undefined symbol: _ZN14QObjectPrivate15checkWindowRoleEv

 lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu hardy (development branch)
Release: 8.04

 apt-cache policy stellarium
stellarium:
  Installiert:0.9.1-2
  Mögliche Pakete:0.9.1-2
  Versions-Tabelle:
 *** 0.9.1-2 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy/universe Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[René Brandenburger (rene-brandenburger)]

tryed to compile from sources, build runs fine, but same problem

[René Brandenburger (rene-brandenburger)]

hmmm, some more googling showed that the culprit is nessuss, which comes with it's own version, and stellarium is using that version

$ ldd /usr/bin/stellarium
 linux-gate.so.1 => (0xb7f21000)
 libQtOpenGL.so.4 => /usr/lib/libQtOpenGL.so.4 (0xb7e94000)
 libQtGui.so.4 => /opt/nessus/lib/libQtGui.so.4 (0xb7661000) <=================
 libpng12.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpng12.so.0 (0xb763d000)
 libSM.so.6 => /usr/lib/libSM.so.6 (0xb7635000)
 libICE.so.6 => /usr/lib/libICE.so.6 (0xb761d000)
 libXi.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXi.so.6 (0xb7615000)
 libXrender.so.1 => /usr/lib/libXrender.so.1 (0xb760d000)
 libXrandr.so.2 => /usr/lib/libXrandr.so.2 (0xb7607000)
 libXcursor.so.1 => /usr/lib/libXcursor.so.1 (0xb75fd000)
 libXinerama.so.1 => /usr/lib/libXinerama.so.1 (0xb75fa000)
 libXfixes.so.3 => /usr/lib/libXfixes.so.3 (0xb75f5000)
 libfreetype.so.6 => /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6 (0xb7585000)
 libfontconfig.so.1 => /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1 (0xb755b000)
 libXext.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXext.so.6 (0xb754d000)
 libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib/libX11.so.6 (0xb7465000)
 libQtNetwork.so.4 => /usr/lib/libQtNetwork.so.4 (0xb73d4000)
 libQtCore.so.4 => /opt/nessus/lib/libQtCore.so.4 (0xb721f000) <=================
 libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0xb720a000)
 libgthread-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgthread-2.0.so.0 (0xb7205000)
 libglib-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 (0xb7154000)
 librt.so.1 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/librt.so.1 (0xb714a000)
 libpthread.so.0 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0 (0xb7132000)
 libdl.so.2 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libdl.so.2 (0xb712e000)
 libQtScript.so.4 => /usr/lib/libQtScript.so.4 (0xb7036000)
 libjpeg.so.62 => /usr/lib/libjpeg.so.62 (0xb7016000)
 libGLU.so.1 => /usr/lib/libGLU.so.1 (0xb6f93000)
 libGL.so.1 => /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 (0xb6f30000)
 libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (0xb6de1000)
 libSDL_mixer-1.2.so.0 => /usr/lib/libSDL_mixer-1.2.so.0 (0xb6d57000)
 libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0xb6c64000)
 libm.so.6 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libm.so.6 (0xb6c3f000)
 libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0xb6c34000)
 libaudio.so.2 => /usr/lib/libaudio.so.2 (0xb6c1d000)
 libXt.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXt.so.6 (0xb6bcc000)
 libexpat.so.1 => /usr/lib/libexpat.so.1 (0xb6bab000)
 libXau.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXau.so.6 (0xb6ba8000)
 libxcb-xlib.so.0 => /usr/lib/libxcb-xlib.so.0 (0xb6ba5000)
 libxcb.so.1 => /usr/lib/libxcb.so.1 (0xb6b8d000)
 libselinux.so.1 => /lib/libselinux.so.1 (0xb6b74000)
 libpcre.so.3 => /usr/lib/libpcre.so.3 (0xb6b4d000)
 /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7f22000)
 libXxf86vm.so.1 => /usr/lib/libXxf86vm.so.1 (0xb6b48000)
 libXdamage.so.1 => /usr/lib/libXdamage.so.1 (0xb6b44000)
 libdrm.so.2 => /usr/lib/libdrm.so.2 (0xb6b3a000)
 libSDL-1.2.so.0 => /usr/lib/libSDL-1.2.so.0 (0xb6aab000)
 libXdmcp.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXdmcp.so.6 (0xb6aa6000)
 libasound.so.2 => /usr/lib/libasound.so.2 (0xb69e3000)
 libdirectfb-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libdirectfb-1.0.so.0 (0xb697f000)
 libfusion-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libfusion-1.0.so.0 (0xb6977000)
 libdirect-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libdirect-1.0.so.0 (0xb6964000)

removing /opt/nessus/lib from /etc/ld.so.conf and re-running ldconfig solved the problem

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

We can't protect against custom $LD_LIBRARY_PATHs.