Hi Bill,
I think the 'fix' that is from your comment #7 is likely to be the cause of
the problem; it's difficult to say for sure without pulling apart all the
libraries, but given that it's complaining about a missing cairo_* symbol it
does sound like a good explanation. Personally I'd NEVER
Dave, Restoring the original libcario module fixed evince --- now NX is unable
to display text again.
Not being real familiar with the internals of Linux, It never occurred to me to
relate the loss of EVINCE with
the fix of NX --- especially since they occurried weeks apart from each other.
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Marking invalid since it's actually due to a broken work around.
What I think you'll need to do is get a copy of the library file (like
the one that you copied into /usr/lib) and put it somewhere else - lets
say /home/wherever/bodge . Now find what starts nx, and start it
manually from a
** Summary changed:
- Evince fails to open PDF files. worked prior to Ubuntu 12.10 upgrade
+ Evince fails to open PDF files. worked prior to Ubuntu 12.10 upgrade
[-WARNING **: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpoppler-glib.so.8: undefined symbol:
cairo_mesh_pattern_begin_patch]
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I can't see any sign of any other ubuntu users hitting this, but it looks like
some arch users hit it;
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=142198
Can you include the output of the command:
dpkg -l \*libpoppler\*
and
dpkg -l \*libcairo\*
How did you upgrade and what version did you
bill@WB4ALM-07:~$ dpkg -l \*libpoppler\*
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)
||/ NameVersionArchitecture
Hi Bill,
OK - that sounds like you had a fairly painful upgrade, and I think your
problem is down to some weird mixture of things from different versions; I've
only looked at your set of libpopplerglib* libraries:
ii libpoppler-glib2 0.6.4-1ubuntu3.4 amd64 PDF rendering library (GLib-based
bill@WB4ALM-07:~$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
[sudo] password for bill: xxx
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
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sudo apt-get
By the way, Dave, I am very appreciative of your assistance.
I guess I owe you a cup of coffie, or a stein of something stronger --
which ever you prefer!!!
/s/ Bill Turner, wb4alm
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Dave, additional info
My initial ubuntu distro was Ubuntu 8:04 LTS, which was upgraded to Ubuntu
10.04 LTS, which was upgraded to ubuntu 12.04, and then to 12.10
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To get Gnome 3, I installed Ubuntu Gnome remix as outlined here:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuGNOME/ReleaseNotes/12.10
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