Bug 334188 - Apper crashes when trying to list installed packages
Summary: Apper crashes when trying to list installed packages
Status: RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Alias: None
Product: apper
Classification: Applications
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: 0.8.1
Platform: Debian testing Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Daniel Nicoletti
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Reported: 2014-05-01 16:45 UTC by Shmerl
Modified: 2014-05-04 01:51 UTC (History)
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Description Shmerl 2014-05-01 16:45:43 UTC 
When run from the terminal, and choosing "Installed Software", apper produces such error before disappearing:

apper: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/apper/libapper.so: undefined symbol: appstream_database_new



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open apper from the terminal
2. Click "Installed Software"

Actual Results:  
Apper shuts down with error in the terminal:

apper: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/apper/libapper.so: undefined symbol: appstream_database_new

Expected Results:  
Apper should show a list of packages.

This also causes plasma-desktop to crash periodically (around once in 10 minutes for me), if apper updates icon is enabled in the system tray.
Comment 1 Sudhir Khanger 2014-05-02 14:01:53 UTC 
@Shmerl I am running Apper 0.8.2 on Fedora 20 and I am unable to reproduce the bug. Have you tried Apper 0.8.2?
Comment 2 Shmerl 2014-05-04 01:51:02 UTC 
It appears to be Debian specific bug, because Debian testing pushed out libappstream0 without updating apper at the same time, which broke it, since libappstream0  0.6 changed the ABI.