Bug 338413 – app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-xlibs: libfontconfig.so.1: undefined symbol: FT_Load_Sfnt_Table

• Status: RESOLVED INVALID
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description bogdan 2010-09-23 07:19:13 UTC]

every program that links to libfontconfig does not start, with the above error. 
i'm using emul-linux-x86-xlibs-20100915, but previous packages have the same behaviour. 
ldd libfontconfig.so.1 doesn't point out to any missing library. 

Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Pacho Ramos 2010-09-27 20:01:55 UTC]

I am unable to reproduce, please provide "emerge --info" and "layman -l" outputs

[Comment 2 bogdan 2010-09-27 20:12:40 UTC]

Created attachment 248826 [details]
emerge --info

[Comment 3 bogdan 2010-09-27 20:18:25 UTC]

layman -l outputs nothing 

[Comment 4 bogdan 2010-09-27 20:24:16 UTC]

this is what I get if I run a 32 bit app
$ wine notepad.exe 
This version of Wine was compiled with freetype headers later than 2.2.0
but is being run with a freetype library without the FT_Load_Sfnt_Table function.
Please upgrade your freetype library.

I only have a 64 bit freetype library. I've reemerged freetype but only libraries from /usr/lib64/ are changeing 

$equery belongs /usr/lib32/libfreetype.so.6.6.0
[ Searching for file(s) /usr/lib32/libfreetype.so.6.6.0 in *... ]
app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-xlibs-20100915 (/usr/lib32/libfreetype.so.6.6.0)

so I can't figure out what's wrong on my system that I receive this FT_Load_Sfnt_Table error. 

thank you

[Comment 5 Pacho Ramos 2010-09-27 20:25:20 UTC]

Please follow Jakub's suggestions in http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=195341 , maybe you have some broken and old 32 bits lib that is causing this...

[Comment 6 Pacho Ramos 2010-09-27 20:31:00 UTC]

And also show the following output:

$ ldd /opt/firefox/firefox-bin 

[Comment 7 bogdan 2010-09-27 20:35:18 UTC]

(In reply to comment #5)
> Please follow Jakub's suggestions in
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=195341 , maybe you have some broken and
> old 32 bits lib that is causing this...
> 

thank you, this solved it 
I had an old freetype library which was located in /lib32/libfreetype.so.6 
 readelf -s   /lib32/libfreetype.so.6 | grep FT_Load
    53: 0000a9dc   643 FUNC    GLOBAL DEFAULT   11 FT_Load_Glyph
   173: 0000ac64    82 FUNC    GLOBAL DEFAULT   11 FT_Load_Char
readelf -s /usr/lib32/libfreetype.so.6 | grep FT_Load
   149: 0000eca0    88 FUNC    GLOBAL DEFAULT   10 FT_Load_Char
   258: 000093c0   143 FUNC    GLOBAL DEFAULT   10 FT_Load_Sfnt_Table
   352: 0000e6d0  1479 FUNC    GLOBAL DEFAULT   10 FT_Load_Glyph

so I've renamed the first one, and now libfontconfig link to the second one. 
problem is now fixed. thank you 

[Comment 8 Pacho Ramos 2010-09-27 20:53:12 UTC]

This bug was invalid then ;-)

[Comment 9 bogdan 2010-09-27 21:14:23 UTC]

(In reply to comment #8)
> This bug was invalid then ;-)
> 

yes you're right. however, I must thank you for pointing me to that bug, cause I had no idea where to look in order to solve this issue.
thank you once again for your availability and kindly help