Error: /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1: undefined symbol: FT_Select_Size

[Dennis Wicks-2]

Greetings;

I have two programs that are failing at startup with this
message;

> /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1: undefined symbol: FT_Select_Size

Does any one know what the problem is?

I have already installed/reinstalled everything I coould
find that seemed to be connected with font config.

TIA!
Dennis


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[Florian Kulzer-3]

On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 20:08:06 -0600, Dennis Wicks wrote:
> Greetings;
>
> I have two programs that are failing at startup with this message;
>
>> /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1: undefined symbol: FT_Select_Size
>
> Does any one know what the problem is?

FT_Select_Size should be defined in libfreetype.so.6 from the
libfreetype6 package.  You either have an outdated version of this
package, or your libfontconfig.so.1 links against the wrong
libfreetype.so.6 (e.g. a non-Debian version in /usr/local/lib/).

Please post the output of these two commands:

dpkg -l libfreetype6 | tail -n-1

ldd /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1

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[Dennis Wicks-2]

Florian Kulzer wrote the following on 02/28/2009 06:40 AM:

> On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 20:08:06 -0600, Dennis Wicks wrote:
>> Greetings;
>>
>> I have two programs that are failing at startup with this message;
>>
>>> /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1: undefined symbol: FT_Select_Size
>> Does any one know what the problem is?
>
> FT_Select_Size should be defined in libfreetype.so.6 from the
> libfreetype6 package.  You either have an outdated version of this
> package, or your libfontconfig.so.1 links against the wrong
> libfreetype.so.6 (e.g. a non-Debian version in /usr/local/lib/).
>
> Please post the output of these two commands:
>
> dpkg -l libfreetype6 | tail -n-1
>
> ldd /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1
>

OK, here are the results

>  dpkg -l libfreetype6 | tail -n-1
> ii  libfreetype6 2.3.7-2 FreeType 2 font engine, shared library files

> ldd /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1
> linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0xb7fb2000)
> libfreetype.so.6 => /usr/local/lib/libfreetype.so.6 (0xb7f03000)
> libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0xb7eee000)
> libexpat.so.1 => /usr/lib/libexpat.so.1 (0xb7ec7000)
> libc.so.6 => /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (0xb7d6c000)
> libpthread.so.0 => /lib/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0 (0xb7d53000)
> /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7fb3000)





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[Florian Kulzer-3]

On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 15:37:56 -0600, Dennis Wicks wrote:
>> On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 20:08:06 -0600, Dennis Wicks wrote:
>>>
>>> I have two programs that are failing at startup with this message;
>>>
>>>> /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1: undefined symbol: FT_Select_Size

[...]

>>  dpkg -l libfreetype6 | tail -n-1
>> ii  libfreetype6 2.3.7-2 FreeType 2 font engine, shared library files

So far, so good...

>> ldd /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1
>> linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0xb7fb2000)
>> libfreetype.so.6 => /usr/local/lib/libfreetype.so.6 (0xb7f03000)

Here is your problem: You have a non-Debian (and most likely outdated)
version of libfreetype.so.6 in /usr/local/lib/. Get rid of it and run
"ldconfig" as root.

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