kcontrol: /symbol lookup error : /opt/trinity/lib/libkdeinit_kcontrol.so: undefined symbol: _ZN9KListView9selectAllEb
14 Dec
2014
14 Dec
'14
3:50 a.m.
Debian 6.0 system is "up to date", in that apt-get udate; apt-get upgrade
find nothing new. TDE is 3.5.13. Settings menu option for Control Center
produces nothing, while from Konsole, the message in $SUBJECT. Individual
settings from the main menu is among the worst UIs on the planet. Please, how
can I get kcontrol working (without hours of updating)?
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14 Dec
14 Dec
5:26 a.m.
New subject: [trinity-users] kcontrol: /symbol lookup error : /opt/trinity/lib/libkdeinit_kcontrol.so: undefined symbol: _ZN9KListView9selectAllEb
On Sat December 13 2014 19:50:38 Felix Miata wrote:
Debian 6.0 system is "up to date", in that
apt-get udate; apt-get upgrade
find nothing new. TDE is 3.5.13. Settings menu option for Control Center
produces nothing, while from Konsole, the message in $SUBJECT. Individual
settings from the main menu is among the worst UIs on the planet. Please,
how can I get kcontrol working (without hours of updating)?
Does "apt-get --reinstall install kdelibs4c2a-trinity" help at all?
--Mike
6:26 a.m.
New subject: [trinity-users] kcontrol: /symbol lookup error : /opt/trinity/lib/libkdeinit_kcontrol.so: undefined symbol: _ZN9KListView9selectAllEb
Mike Bird composed on 2014-12-13 21:26 (UTC-0800):
Felix Miata wrote:
> Debian 6.0 system is "up to date", in
that apt-get udate; apt-get upgrade
> find nothing new. TDE is 3.5.13. Settings menu option for Control Center
> produces nothing, while from Konsole, the message in $SUBJECT. Individual
> settings from the main menu is among the worst UIs on the planet. Please,
> how can I get kcontrol working (without hours of updating)?
Does "apt-get --reinstall install
kdelibs4c2a-trinity" help at all?
Helped a lot! KControl works. :-D http://tinyurl.com/nz37aer :-D How did you
figure out that's what needed doing? $SUBJECT produced 0 hits from Google. :-p
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12:29 p.m.
New subject: [trinity-users] kcontrol: /symbol lookup error : /opt/trinity/lib/libkdeinit_kcontrol.so: undefined symbol: _ZN9KListView9selectAllEb
On Sun, 14 Dec 2014 01:26:25 -0500
Felix Miata <mrmazda(a)earthlink.net> wrote:
Mike Bird composed on 2014-12-13 21:26 (UTC-0800):
The error suggested it was having difficulty finding the symbol definitions for a
common TDE graphical component. The logical place for such a component to
be defined is the libs package, and the easiest way to deal with a broken package
is usually to reinstall it and hope the package mangler gets it right this time. ;)
E. Liddell
Felix Miata wrote:
> Debian 6.0 system is "up to date",
in that apt-get udate; apt-get upgrade
> find nothing new. TDE is 3.5.13. Settings menu option for Control Center
> produces nothing, while from Konsole, the message in $SUBJECT. Individual
> settings from the main menu is among the worst UIs on the planet. Please,
> how can I get kcontrol working (without hours of updating)?
Does "apt-get --reinstall install
kdelibs4c2a-trinity" help at all?
Helped a lot! KControl works. :-D http://tinyurl.com/nz37aer :-D How did you
figure out that's what needed doing? $SUBJECT produced 0 hits from Google. :-p
7:41 p.m.
New subject: [trinity-users] kcontrol: /symbol lookup error : /opt/trinity/lib/libkdeinit_kcontrol.so: undefined symbol: _ZN9KListView9selectAllEb
E. Liddell composed on 2014-12-14 07:29 (UTC-0500):
On Sun, 14 Dec 2014 01:26:25 -0500 Felix Miata wrote:
> Mike Bird composed on 2014-12-13 21:26 (UTC-0800):
> > Does "apt-get --reinstall install
kdelibs4c2a-trinity" help at all?
> Helped a lot! KControl works. :-D
http://tinyurl.com/nz37aer :-D How did you
> figure out that's what needed doing? $SUBJECT produced 0 hits from Google. :-p
The error suggested it was having difficulty finding
the symbol definitions for a
common TDE graphical component. The logical place for such a component to
be defined is the libs package, and the easiest way to deal with a broken package
is usually to reinstall it and hope the package mangler gets it right this time. ;)
Mike Bird composed on 2014-12-14 07:39 (UTC-0800):
kdelibs4c2a-trinity was by far the most likely
candidate. Downloaded
the source for that package and checked that KListView::selectAll is
defined there.
I get that *some* lib was a likely candidate, and that reinstalling the right
package should be the solution. What I don't see is the connection between
the error message and the package name string "kdelibs4c2a" that Mike
correctly identified.
I suggest you might want determine how the problem
arose - whether by
user error or disk error or malicious attack or otherwise.
Likely a combination of user error and package mangler error. I had tried to
update to v14, but after an hour of seeing upgrade candidate messages scroll
up the screen without noticing evidence of actual progress, I Ctrl-C'd out,
restored the old sources.list, and from there dont' remember what I did and
didn't do. I've since done an update that included somewhere between 250 &
300 packages, and all seems good now with that installation.
As it's a multiboot machine, with old HD and new Asus A88X-Pro
motherboard/RAM/CPU/video, I have to get all working acceptably, and I've hit
another big snag Google isn't helping with. The owner's vision is somewhere
in the bottom 2%, very poor. One of his workarounds is using a 42" TV screen.
Another was apparently installing/configuring some accessibility package that
made his mouse pointer easier to find in KDE3 in openSUSE 11.3. Using his
11.3 user data for a fresh 13.1 installation, his mouse pointer totally
disappears as soon as login painting completes, and it stays gone. With a
virgin user the pointer works normally. I've tried going through
.kde/share/config/ looking for mouse configs to zero out, but that hasn't
worked, and neither has looking for suspect package names among a complete
package list. I found he had downloaded 140787-LargeCursors.tar.bz2 and
installed that, but no help from it either.
Also, many sound devices are showing up in lsmod, apparently confusing both
automatic and manual configuration attempts. Alsactl init in Squeeze returns
instantly, writing nothing anywhere I can find. According to YaST2 on
openSUSE 13.2, there are 2 "cards", ATI as card0 using snd-hda-intel, and FCH
Azalia as card1, also using snd-hda-intel.
:~(
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11:40 p.m.
New subject: [trinity-users] kcontrol: /symbol lookup error : /opt/trinity/lib/libkdeinit_kcontrol.so: undefined symbol: _ZN9KListView9selectAllEb
On Sun December 14 2014 11:41:52 Felix Miata wrote:
I get that *some* lib was a likely candidate, and that
reinstalling the
right package should be the solution. What I don't see is the connection
between the error message and the package name string "kdelibs4c2a" that
Mike correctly identified.
_ZN9KListView9selectAllEb is C++ symbol mangling of KListView::selectAll
which sounds like a common standard KDE function so I checked the common
standard KDE library package first. I already knew its name from many
installs over the years.
//
Likely a combination of user error and package mangler
error. I had tried
to update to v14, but after an hour of seeing upgrade candidate messages
scroll up the screen without noticing evidence of actual progress, I
Ctrl-C'd out, restored the old sources.list, and from there dont' remember
what I did and didn't do. I've since done an update that included somewhere
between 250 & 300 packages, and all seems good now with that installation.
Ah yes, that could leave things in a bad state. I suggest you run the
following (all on one line) to look for other possible problems:
dpkg-query --show --showformat='${STATUS} ${PACKAGE} ${VERSION}
${ARCHITECTURE}\n' | grep -v 'install ok installed'
//
Mouse pointer and sound card problems are outside my area of expertise.
Hopefully somebody else can help you with those.
--Mike
15 Dec
15 Dec
2:07 a.m.
New subject: [trinity-users] kcontrol: /symbol lookup error : /opt/trinity/lib/libkdeinit_kcontrol.so: undefined symbol: _ZN9KListView9selectAllEb
Mike Bird composed on 2014-12-14 15:40 (UTC-0800):
Felix Miata wrote:
_ZN9KListView9selectAllEb is C++ symbol mangling of
KListView::selectAll
which sounds like a common standard KDE function so I checked the common
standard KDE library package first. I already knew its name from many
installs over the years.
> Likely a combination of user error and package
mangler error. I had tried
> to update to v14, but after an hour of seeing upgrade candidate messages
> scroll up the screen without noticing evidence of actual progress, I
> Ctrl-C'd out, restored the old sources.list, and from there dont' remember
> what I did and didn't do. I've since done an update that included somewhere
> between 250 & 300 packages, and all seems good now with that installation.
Ah yes, that could leave things in a bad state. I
suggest you run the
following (all on one line) to look for other possible problems:
dpkg-query --show --showformat='${STATUS}
${PACKAGE} ${VERSION}
${ARCHITECTURE}\n' | grep -v 'install ok installed'
Of 148 lines of output, 147 looked like this one:
deinstall ok config-files libweather-ion4a 4:4.4.5-7+squeeze1 amd64
The other is this:
install ok half-configured linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64 2.6.32-48squeeze6 amd64
The latter is not unexpected, given its routine of not completing linux-image
installation.
Repeating that command without the grep produced 0 lines not containing ok,
1923 total lines.
Mouse pointer and sound card problems are outside my
area of expertise.
Hopefully somebody else can help you with those.
I gave up trying to "fix" the mouse pointer. I made it work by deleting most
of the content of .kde/share/config/, kde4 configs, gnome/gtk configs, and
the caches to more or less emulate a virgin user. Sound I "fixed" by
installing the PCI Audigy Sound Blaster that had been used with the old
motherboard. With that installed, sound simply works without me having had to
do configuring.
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2:21 a.m.
New subject: [trinity-users] kcontrol: /symbol lookup error : /opt/trinity/lib/libkdeinit_kcontrol.so: undefined symbol: _ZN9KListView9selectAllEb
On Sun December 14 2014 18:07:29 Felix Miata wrote:
Those packages are removed but not purged. Unless you planned on
reinstalling them you would normally purge them just to tidy up
your system. If you leave them as they are some (rare) problems
can occur.
dpkg-query
--show --showformat='${STATUS} ${PACKAGE} ${VERSION}
${ARCHITECTURE}\n' | grep -v 'install ok installed'
Of 148 lines of output, 147 looked like this one:
deinstall ok config-files libweather-ion4a 4:4.4.5-7+squeeze1 amd64 The other is this:
install ok half-configured linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64 2.6.32-48squeeze6
amd64
Its installation was interrupted by an error or ctrl-C. Best to
reinstall or purge it to avoid possible boot-related problems.
--Mike
3:05 a.m.
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Mike Bird composed on 2014-12-14 18:21 (UTC-0800):
On Sun December 14 2014 18:07:29 Felix Miata wrote:
> > dpkg-query --show --showformat='${STATUS}
${PACKAGE} ${VERSION}
> > ${ARCHITECTURE}\n' | grep -v 'install ok installed'
> Of 148 lines of output, 147 looked like this one:
> deinstall ok config-files libweather-ion4a 4:4.4.5-7+squeeze1 amd64
Those packages are removed but not purged. Unless you
planned on
reinstalling them you would normally purge them just to tidy up
your system. If you leave them as they are some (rare) problems
can occur.
> The other is this:
> install ok half-configured linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64 2.6.32-48squeeze6
> amd64
Its installation was interrupted by an error or
ctrl-C. Best to
reinstall or purge it to avoid possible boot-related problems.
I did these:
# apt-get --reinstall install linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64
# apt-get purge all
# apt-get purge *
# apt-get --reinstall install linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64
# apt-get --reinstall install linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64
Each except the purges generated the following (same as many times before):
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 16 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64 (2.6.32-48squeeze6) ...
Running depmod.
Running update-initramfs.
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-5-amd64
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8105e-1.fw for module r8169
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168e-2.fw for module r8169
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168e-1.fw for module r8169
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168d-2.fw for module r8169
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168d-1.fw for module r8169
Examining /etc/kernel/postinst.d.
run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postinst.d/initramfs-tools 2.6.32-5-amd64
/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-amd64
run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postinst.d/pm-utils 2.6.32-5-amd64
/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-amd64
run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postinst.d/update-notifier 2.6.32-5-amd64
/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-amd64
run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postinst.d/zz-update-grub 2.6.32-5-amd64
/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-amd64
Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grub
Searching for default file ... Generating /boot/grub/default file and setting
the default boot entry to 0
entry not specified.
run-parts: /etc/kernel/postinst.d/zz-update-grub exited with return code 1
Failed to process /etc/kernel/postinst.d at
/var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64.postinst line 799.
dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64 (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
configured to not write apport reports
Errors were encountered while processing:
linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
These too fail with what appears to be the exact same messages as using
apt-get to install or remove anything else, or upgrade:
# apt-get purge linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64
# apt-get remove linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64
Too many ways to fail around here lately. :-(
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3:30 a.m.
New subject: [trinity-users] kcontrol: /symbol lookup error : /opt/trinity/lib/libkdeinit_kcontrol.so: undefined symbol: _ZN9KListView9selectAllEb
Felix,
(With apologies to T-U readers as this has become somewhat O/T but
I hope it is still useful.)
The linux-image install may be failing as a result of a config
file left over from a removed but not purged package or an
obsolete config file resulting from a downgrade or failed upgrade.
Try the following (all on one line):
dpkg-query --show --showformat='${STATUS} ${PACKAGE} ${VERSION}
${ARCHITECTURE}\n' | grep 'deinstall ok config-files' | awk '{print
$4}'
That should give you a list of packages to be purged. If it
looks OK add a "dpkg --purge $(" on the front and a ")" on the
end to purge them.
Then try the reinstall again. If it works great. If it fails
please show me the result of:
grep 'obsolete$' /var/lib/dpkg/status
--Mike
6:24 a.m.
New subject: [trinity-users][OT] failing kernel/postinst.d (was: kcontrol: /symbol lookup err)
Mike Bird composed on 2014-12-14 19:30 (UTC-0800):
The linux-image install may be failing as a result of
a config
file left over from a removed but not purged package or an
obsolete config file resulting from a downgrade or failed upgrade.
Try the following (all on one line):
dpkg-query --show --showformat='${STATUS}
${PACKAGE} ${VERSION}
${ARCHITECTURE}\n' | grep 'deinstall ok config-files' | awk '{print
$4}'
success ( | wc -l: 147 )
That should give you a list of packages to be purged.
If it
looks OK add a "dpkg --purge $(" on the front and a ")" on the
end to purge them.
Took me a while to grok this instruction into:
dpkg --purge $(dpkg-query --show --showformat='${STATUS} ${PACKAGE}
${VERSION} ${ARCHITECTURE}\n' | grep 'deinstall ok config-files' | awk
'{print $4}')
Then try the reinstall again. If it works great. If
it fails
Fails again with what looks like the exact same messages as all the other
times, and :-( again.
please show me the result of:
grep 'obsolete$' /var/lib/dpkg/status
/etc/default/kdm.d/10_desktop-base 0c8e814e3ff9771bc023cca7fffc4fd7 obsolete
/etc/trinity/kdeglobals 03f62af2e6af270e0cb1b9e396fc5a78 obsolete
/etc/trinity/kdm/backgroundrc e5d6fd0838cafe044f1cff0224af4b12 obsolete
Thanks for your persistence Mike, and sorry for wasting your time with this
OT followup!
Looking back through those error messages again made me take a look at
/etc/kernel/postinst.d/. It looks like in my naive effort over two years ago
when I did this installation that in order to prevent updates to menu.lst
from being created at upgrades time I renamed
/etc/kernel/postinst.d/update-grub to zz-update-grub instead of removing its
execute bits and/or making menu.lst immutable. The reason for wanting that is
in multiboot, using a master bootloader, life is simpler when kernels and
initrds in boot stanzas don't have names that change. I facilitate that
relative simplicity with manually created symlinks to fixed names initrd-cur,
vmlinuz-cur, initrd-prv, vmlinuz-prv, initrd-prv2, vmlinuz-prv2, etc. The
Debian boot menu updates process mangles boot menu file creation when it
finds kernel and initrd names that do not include version numbers, which in
turn makes chainloading to the installation's own boot menu instead of
bypassing it via master boot menu difficult if not impossible at precisely
the time it's most needed to fall back to.
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14 Dec
14 Dec
3:39 p.m.
New subject: [trinity-users] kcontrol: /symbol lookup error : /opt/trinity/lib/libkdeinit_kcontrol.so: undefined symbol: _ZN9KListView9selectAllEb
On Sat December 13 2014 22:26:25 Felix Miata wrote:
Mike Bird composed on 2014-12-13 21:26 (UTC-0800):
Hi Felix,
kdelibs4c2a-trinity was by far the most likely candidate. Downloaded
the source for that package and checked that KListView::selectAll is
defined there.
I suggest you might want determine how the problem arose - whether by
user error or disk error or malicious attack or otherwise.
--Mike
Felix Miata wrote:
Helped a lot! KControl works. :-D http://tinyurl.com/nz37aer :-D How did
you figure out that's what needed doing? $SUBJECT produced 0 hits from
Google. :-p Debian 6.0 system is "up to date", in
that apt-get udate; apt-get
upgrade find nothing new. TDE is 3.5.13. Settings menu option for
Control Center produces nothing, while from Konsole, the message in
$SUBJECT. Individual settings from the main menu is among the worst UIs
on the planet. Please, how can I get kcontrol working (without hours of
updating)?
Does "apt-get --reinstall install kdelibs4c2a-trinity" help at all?
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