18.10 : Tilix symbol lookup error

[Joseph Maillardet]

18.10 up-to-date

tilix 1.7.9-2ubuntu1 amd64
tilix-common 1.7.9-2ubuntu1 all

Running tilix :
$ tilix
tilix: symbol lookup error: tilix: undefined symbol: _D4glib3StrQe9toStringzFAyaZPa

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.10
Package: tilix 1.7.9-2ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-23.25-generic 4.15.18
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-23-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.10-0ubuntu5
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Thu Jul 19 18:06:40 2018
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: tilix
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to cosmic on 2018-05-17 (63 days ago)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Carlos Gama (gamac)]

FYI I had the exact same problem (18.10 updated with all the latest updates as of this moment), however I managed to get it working after recompiling the 'tilix' package from sources. For reference I used the instructions on this forum page:

https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=101097

[Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd)]

I noticed there's a newer version which has been synced from Debian, but it is for the moment in cosmic-proposed (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tilix/1.8.1-1). If a rebuild is all that it takes, this newer version should presumably resolve the issue once it migrates to the release pocket.

[Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd)]

Now that tilix 1.8.1-1 is available on Ubuntu Cosmic, I am no longer able to reproduce this issue. Thus I believe it can be marked as fix released. (I tested briefly with the rebuilt version, 1.8.1-1build1 from -proposed, and that seemed to also work as expected)