Re: acroread problem: symbol lookup error: /usr/pkg/xorg/lib/libICE.so.6: undefined symbol: __sF

[Mark Davies <mark%mcs.vuw.ac.nz@localhost>]

On Thu, 01 Mar 2007, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> I just upgraded to 4.99.12 from 25 February.  When I click on a PDF
> link from native-compiled Firefox 2.0.0.2, I get
>
>       /usr/pkg/Acrobat7/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread: symbol lookup
> error: /usr/pkg/xorg/lib/libICE.so.6: undefined symbol: __sF
>
> If, otoh, I open the downloaded PDF file from a shell prompt, it
> just works.  This problem started after my kernel+userland upgrade;
> these are the relevant packages:

We recently hit this, or something similar, with firefox 1.5.0.x and 
acroread7.  The problem in our case was that /usr/pkg/bin/firefox is 
a script that explicitly sets up LD_LIBRARY_PATH to 
include /usr/pkg/lib so then acroread, when run from firefox, 
inherits that environment variable and starts potentially finding 
some of its shared libraries in /usr/pkg/lib rather than the linux 
ones.

Our current local fix is to clear LD_LIBRARY_PATH at the start of the 
acroread7 script.

I haven't checked yet whether the LD_LIBRARY_PATH setting in the 
firefox script is a recent change.

cheers
mark

Index: files/acroread.diff
===================================================================
RCS file: /src/cvs/netbsd/pkgsrc/print/acroread7/files/acroread.diff,v
retrieving revision 1.4
diff -u -r1.4 acroread.diff
--- files/acroread.diff 13 Jun 2006 14:04:35 -0000      1.4
+++ files/acroread.diff 25 Feb 2007 13:02:42 -0000
@@ -1,17 +1,17 @@
-$NetBSD: acroread.diff,v 1.4 2006/06/13 14:04:35 salo Exp $
-
---- acroread.orig      2006-05-23 01:33:35.000000000 +0000
-+++ acroread   2006-06-13 13:55:00.000000000 +0000
-@@ -233,7 +233,7 @@ else
+--- acroread.orig      2007-02-26 01:46:29.000000000 +1300
++++ acroread   2007-02-26 01:49:49.000000000 +1300
+@@ -233,8 +233,9 @@
   ScriptDirectory="`/bin/pwd 2> /dev/null`"
   cd "$cwd"
  fi
 -install_dir=`dirname "$ScriptDirectory"`/Reader
 +install_dir=@PREFIX@/Acrobat7/Reader
  
++LD_LIBRARY_PATH=""    # protect from external setting
  
  #
-@@ -476,18 +476,18 @@ check_gtk_ver_and_set_lib_path()
+ # Prepend a colon separated environment variable
+@@ -476,18 +477,18 @@
      OLD_IFS=""
  
      # This checks for libs in cache /etc/ld.so.cache
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
  
      return 1
  }
-@@ -614,6 +614,19 @@ case "$os_name" in
+@@ -614,6 +615,19 @@
      ACRO_CONFIG=intellinux
      export ACRO_CONFIG
      ;;
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@
    AIX)
      ACRO_CONFIG=rs6000aix
      export ACRO_CONFIG
-@@ -668,7 +681,7 @@ case "$ACRO_CONFIG" in
+@@ -668,7 +682,7 @@
      ;;
  esac