Bug#636197: re Bug#636197

[Oliver Jeeves]

On Mon, Aug 01, 2011 at 07:19:06PM -0400, James Vega wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 01, 2011 at 12:25:32PM +0100, Oliver Jeeves wrote:
> > On further investigation, it looks like gvim is trying to open the file:
> > 
> > /usr/lib/libgail.so
> 
> It doesn't do that here.  It opens
> /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgailutil.so.18.

Similarly on my laptop, which I updated a day after the machine with
this issue, it accesses /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgailutil.so.18, I
can't explain why one machine's ended up in the state it is, I've not
been doing anything fruity with the package manager.

That it tries to access the above file, I determined from a very brief
play with strace, so that might not be the whole story. Unfortunately
I'm not going to have direct access to that machine for a few days.

> > The closest match I can find is:
> > 
> > /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/gtk-2.0/modules/libgail.so
> > 
> > which is provided by the libgail-common package.
> 
> Which it should be able to find if your system gone through the
> multiarch transition correctly.  Does
> «cat /etc/ld.so.conf.d/i486-linux-gnu.conf» have a line that says
> “/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu”?

Yes, it does:

oliver at batfink:~$ cat /etc/ld.so.conf.d/i486-linux-gnu.conf
# Multiarch support
/lib/i386-linux-gnu
/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu
/lib/i486-linux-gnu
/usr/lib/i486-linux-gnu

> What version of libgail18 do you have installed?

2.24.5-4