Bug#626076: gnome_vfs_unescape_string symbol is exported by /usr/lib/libgnomevfs-2.so.0

[Josselin Mouette]

reassign 626076 iceweasel
thanks

Le lundi 08 août 2011 à 15:15 +0200, Gianluigi Tiesi a écrit :
> I use 'stock' mozilla packages, I have same problem when using thunderbird after selecting
> an executable to handle http protocol.
> Looks like the symbol is exported by /usr/lib/libgnomevfs-2.so.0:
> 
> sherpya at orion:~$ objdump -T /usr/lib/libgnomevfs-2.so.0|grep gnome_vfs_unescape_string
> 00034150 g    DF .text  00000141  Base        gnome_vfs_unescape_string_for_display
> 00034000 g    DF .text  00000147  Base        gnome_vfs_unescape_string
> 
> but firefox and thunderbird have that lib loaded
> 
> sherpya at orion:~$ lsof | grep libgnomevfs-2.so.0
> firefox-b 3211    sherpya  mem       REG        8,1   372444  282138 /usr/lib/libgnomevfs-2.so.0.2400.4
> thunderbi 4624    sherpya  mem       REG        8,1   372444  282138 /usr/lib/libgnomevfs-2.so.0.2400.4
> 
> so it's a bit strange, but calling thunderbird with LD_PRELOAD apparently solves the problem with
> thunderbird
> 
> LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libgnomevfs-2.so.0 thunderbird
> 
> looks like something strange in dlsym

No, it looks like a bug in iceweasel.

If libfile.so uses symbols from gnome-vfs, it needs to depend on it
(NEEDED field).

Anyway this is a bad idea since now all these features are provided by
libgio, firefox should use it instead of the deprecated gnome-vfs.

Cheers,
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