Ubuntu 18 - package mismatch ("libgtk-3.so.0: undefined symbol: g_log_structured_standard")

GailH · 07-25-2018, 06:59 AM

I have recently upgraded to Ubuntu 18, (Bionic) from Ubuntu 16 (Xenial), and practically no GUI or windowing is working.
I think the problem is caused by package mismatch.
Here is some information:

Quote:

$ gedit
gedit: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgtk-3.so.0:
undefined symbol: g_log_structured_standard

$ gnome-system-monitor
gnome-system-monitor: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgiomm-2.4.so.1:
undefined symbol: g_application_set_option_context_description

$ dpkg -l gnome-shell
ii gnome-shell 3.28.2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1

$ lsb_release -a
Distributor ID: Ubuntu; Description: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS; Release: 18.04; Codename: bionic

$ uname -a
Linux 4.15.0-23-generic #25-Ubuntu SMP x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

$ dpkg -s libgtk-3-0
Version: 3.22.30-1ubuntu1
Provides: gtk3-binver-3.0.0

How should I fix the dependencies?
Suspecting glib2, I have now separately installed (using dpkg): libglib2.0-0_2.56.1-2ubuntu1_amd64.deb,
libglib2.0-dev_2.56.1-2ubuntu1_amd64.deb, and: libglib2.0-dev-bin_2.56.1-2ubuntu1_amd64.deb - with no errors, but that didn't seem to help.

Keruskerfuerst · 07-27-2018, 12:45 AM

You should think about a re-installation of Ubuntu 18.04.1.

AwesomeMachine · 07-28-2018, 10:03 AM

You can try from the terminal:

Code:

$ apt-get remove --purge libglib*
$ apt-get install libglib-2.x-y

where x and y are whatever the package version says.