firefox and gedit fail to open and give a 'symbol lookup error'
Issue
- firefox or gedit fail the start when executed as a specific user:
- Firefox gives the following error:
/usr/lib/firefox-3.0.7/firefox-bin: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libgnomevfs-2.so.0: undefined symbol: xmlTextReaderConstName - Gedit gives the following error:
Warning: program compiled against libxml 206 using older 205 gedit: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libgnomevfs-2.so.0: undefined symbol: xmlTextReaderConstName
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
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