When I try to save a file in gnome 1.4.3-r3, it complains about a xml_sax plugin (in the right place) and saves an empty file (pretty anoying when you had important stuff in that file). Reproduce: I reproduced it several times (also after a remerged gnumeric and revdev-rebuild). If more reproduce, it is kind of critical for a desktop user. Solution: I upgraded to 1.6.3 (package.keywords) and it worked again. It happened after I updated to Gnome 2.14.x, is 1.4.x not compatible anymore?
Confirmed here too. Note I suspect the original poster meant "gnumeric 1.4.3-r3" not "gnome 1.4.3-r3". I have seen this with gnumeric-1.4.3-r3 under gnome -2.14.2 The actual error message on attempting to save a file is: Error while saving file. Unable to open module file "/usr/lib/gnumeric/1.4.3/plugins/xml_sax/xml_sax". /usr/lib/gnumeric/1.4.3/plugins/xml_sax/xml_sax.so: undefined symbol: gsf_xml_in_parse And the file you are trying to save is overwritten with an empty file. I have run a 'revdep-rebuild -p' which claims dynamic linking on my system is consistent. My emerge --info: janus ~ # emerge --info Portage 2.1-r1 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-3.4.6, glibc-2.3.6-r4, 2.6.16.19-3 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.16.19-3 i686 VIA Samuel 2 Gentoo Base System version 1.6.15 app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.3-r1 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: [Not Present] dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r3 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i586-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-Os -march=c3" CHOST="i586-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-Os -march=c3" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow X a52 aac acpi alsa apache2 apm arts asf audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr cle266 cli crypt cups directfb divx4linux dlloader doc dri dts dv dvd dvdr dvdread eds emacs emboss encode esd exif ffmpeg flac foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile imagemagick imlib insecure-drivers ipv6 isdnlog jpeg kde lcms libg++ libgda libwww mad mbox mikmod mmx motif mozilla mp3 mpeg mysql ncurses nls nptl ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcre pda pdflib perl plotutils png postgres pppd python qt qt3 qt4 quicktime readline reflection sasl sdl session snmp spell spl ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb v4l v4l2 vorbis win32codecs xml xml2 xmms xorg xosd xv xvid xvmc zlib elibc_glibc input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse input_devices_evdev kernel_linux userland_GNU video_cards_via video_cards_cle266" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
gnumeric-1.4 needs libgsf < 1.13.0 according to: http://cvs.gnome.org/bonsai/cvsquery.cgi?branch=&dir=gnumeric&who=jody&date=explicit&mindate=2006-06-09%2010:08&maxdate=2006-06-09%2010:10 What's holding back gnumeric-1.6 from going stable? Seems like the 1.4 stuff is a mess.
Dupe of 140758.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 140758 ***
