Bug 101890 - Unable to start xorg-server after upgrade to harfbuzz 1.4.7
Summary: Unable to start xorg-server after upgrade to harfbuzz 1.4.7
Status: RESOLVED NOTOURBUG
Alias: None
Product: HarfBuzz
Classification: Unclassified
Component: src (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64) Linux (All)
: medium blocker
Assignee: Behdad Esfahbod
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Reported: 2017-07-24 06:24 UTC by ariane
Modified: 2017-07-26 01:01 UTC (History)
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Description ariane 2017-07-24 06:24:50 UTC 
OS: Archlinux
Xorg-Server: 1.19.3-2
Harfbuzz: 1.4.7-1

It works fine with harfbuzz 1.4.6-1

/usr/lib/gdm/gdm-x-session: /usr/lib/xorg-server/Xorg: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libharfbuzz.so.0: undefined symbol: FT_Get_Var_Blend_Coordinates
/usr/lib/gdm/gdm-x-session: Unable to run X server
Comment 1 Behdad Esfahbod 2017-07-26 01:01:38 UTC 
(In reply to ariane from comment #0)
> OS: Archlinux
> Xorg-Server: 1.19.3-2
> Harfbuzz: 1.4.7-1
> 
> It works fine with harfbuzz 1.4.6-1
> 
> /usr/lib/gdm/gdm-x-session: /usr/lib/xorg-server/Xorg: symbol lookup error:
> /usr/lib/libharfbuzz.so.0: undefined symbol: FT_Get_Var_Blend_Coordinates
> /usr/lib/gdm/gdm-x-session: Unable to run X server

You are trying to run a HarfBuzz library compiled with a version of FreeType that has FT_Get_Var_Blend_Coordinates, but your runtime FreeType library is older and does not have that symbol.  On Fedora, this used to happen if you had freetype-freeworld installed.  On other systems, perhaps you have the "infinality" FreeType installed.  At any rate, a misconfigured system, not an upstream bug.

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