sos: undefined symbol: g_get_filename_charsets

Roy Smith · Post by **Roy Smith** » Thu Oct 06, 2005 7:21 am

sorry for the double submitting.

do any of you know what to do here ?

some details:
vanilla Fedora Core 3 installation,
with readline-5.0-3.i386.rpm on it.

the full error msg is printed to the screen moments after i try to run ./sos
the exact full msg is: "sos: symbol lookup error: sos: undefined symbol: g_get_filename_charsets"

thx alot,
Roy.

sterwill · Post by **sterwill** » Thu Oct 06, 2005 9:02 am

This error is because SOS is looking for a function in GLIB that doesn't exist in older versions. GLIB 2.8 (or newer) is required to run SOS.

Roy Smith · Post by **Roy Smith** » Wed Oct 19, 2005 9:01 am

Hi,

I have glibc 3.3 installed (comes by default at Fedora 3),
and I get those error msg.
on the other hand, when trying to run sos on Fedora 4
(with glibc 3.5) there were no problems.

what should I do ?
reinstall the system with fedora 4 (not happy with this solution

?

thanks a lot,
Roy.

sterwill · Post by **sterwill** » Wed Oct 19, 2005 11:56 am

The missing library, GLIB, is one of the libraries that the GTK library depends on, not the C library (glibc) that is installed with your operating system. Upgrading to Fedora Core 4 will fix your problem, because Core 4 includes GLIB 2.6, but you can also install updated GTK packages on your Core 3 system.

I made a mistake in my first reply: SOS requires GTK/GLIB 2.6 or newer, not GTK/GLIB 2.8.

So you don't have to reinstall, you can get updated GLIB and GTK RPMs for Fedora Core 3 at http://atrpms.net/dist/fc3/. You may need additional packages that GLIB and GTK depend on (which should be available from the same site). These packages have not been tested by SourceGear.

chrismon · Post by **chrismon** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 3:28 pm

I am running FC4, and it comes with GTK2-2.4 GLIB2-2.4 .... trying to upgreade them to 2.6 has been a nightmare! Has anyone had success actually doing this to get SOS to run?

Also, the requirements list on the downloads webpage says 2.4 is OK

http://www.sourcegear.com/sos/sysreq.html

I'm just about resigned to give up on SOS.

[update/edit...]

Some corrections: I was not running FC4 but Centos4.2. Centos4.2 is using many older libs, among other things. So SOS's issues are with Centos not Fedora. I installed an FC4 system yesterday and SOS works fine so far.

lbauer · Post by **lbauer** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 4:39 pm

Thanks for the update. Glad SOS is working for you now.

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