Browser-laptop: undefined symbol: gdk_screen_get_monitor_scale_factor

[wolkym]

0.18 version doesn't run on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.

It fails with undefined symbol: gdk_screen_get_monitor_scale_factor

cracs@ddmstat:~/Downloads$ brave
brave: symbol lookup error: brave: undefined symbol: gdk_screen_get_monitor_scale_factor

cracs@ddmstat:~/Downloads$ which brave
/usr/bin/brave

Platform:

cracs@ddmstat:~/Downloads$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 12.04.5 LTS
Release:    12.04
Codename:   precise
cracs@ddmstat:~/Downloads$ uname -a
Linux ddmstat 3.13.0-77-generic #121~precise1-Ubuntu SMP Wed Jan 20 18:02:20 UTC 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

cracs@ddmstat:~/Downloads$ aptitude versions ~ilibgdk
Package libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0:                       
i   2.26.1-1ubuntu1.3                                                                                                   100 

Package libgdk-pixbuf2.0-common:
i   2.26.1-1ubuntu1.3                                                                                                   100 

Package libgdk-pixbuf2.0-dev:
i A 2.26.1-1ubuntu1.3                                                                                                   100 

Brave Version (revision SHA):
0.18.16-1

Steps to reproduce:
1. Install brave 0.18.16-1
2. run brave

Is this an issue in the currently released version? YES

Can this issue be consistently reproduced? YES

[bsclifton]

Ubuntu 12 is a little old- I don't know if Chromium is supported on that spec. @cronacronis does Chrome / Chromium work OK for you?

This might be a gtk2 vs gtk3 kind of issue

[wolkym]

@bsclifton version 0.17 works fine. Chrome works as well :)

[bsclifton]

@cronacronis what version of Chrome? With 0.18.14, we upgraded to Chromium 60

[bsclifton]

cc: @hferreiro

[ltilve]

It seems it could be a missing gtk3 dependency issue. The symbol for gdk_screen_get_monitor_scale_factor should come with /lib64/libgdk-3.so.
Apparently it happens too with upstream Chrome 60 and Red Hat 7 https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45312030/chrome-60-undefined-symbol-gdk-screen-get-monitor-scale-factor-on-redhat-7

[wolkym]

Looks like I have it, but indeed no gdk_screen_get_monitor_scale_factor

cracs@ddmstat:~$ readelf -s -W /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgdk-3.so | grep gdk_screen_get_monitor
   604: 0000000000028d60   196 FUNC    GLOBAL DEFAULT   11 gdk_screen_get_monitor_plug_name
   680: 0000000000028e30   185 FUNC    GLOBAL DEFAULT   11 gdk_screen_get_monitor_geometry
   692: 0000000000029000   315 FUNC    GLOBAL DEFAULT   11 gdk_screen_get_monitor_at_window
   716: 0000000000028ba0   223 FUNC    GLOBAL DEFAULT   11 gdk_screen_get_monitor_width_mm
   869: 0000000000028c80   223 FUNC    GLOBAL DEFAULT   11 gdk_screen_get_monitor_height_mm
  1070: 0000000000029140   233 FUNC    GLOBAL DEFAULT   11 gdk_screen_get_monitor_at_point
  1134: 0000000000029230   185 FUNC    GLOBAL DEFAULT   11 gdk_screen_get_monitor_workarea

cracs@ddmstat:~$ dpkg-query -S /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgdk-3.so
libgtk-3-dev: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgdk-3.so

cracs@ddmstat:~$ aptitude versions ~ilibgtk-3-dev
Package libgtk-3-dev:                                   
i   3.4.2-0ubuntu0.9                             precise-security,precise- 500 

Versions in current distros

Should raise the version requirement for libgtk-3-dev in version 0.18

[ltilve]

ftr, on my Debian env seems to be correct:

$ readelf -s -W /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgdk-3.so | grep gdk_screen_get_monitor_scale
  1097: 00000000000436f0   268 FUNC    GLOBAL DEFAULT   12 gdk_screen_get_monitor_scale_factor

[wolkym]

@ltilve what is the version of libgtk-3-dev you have installed? ($ aptitude versions ~ilibgtk-3-dev)

[ltilve]

It's the 3.22.17-1 from debian testing

[hferreiro]

The oldest Ubuntu version supported by Chromium is 14.04. Commit https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git/+/b50cab37a165f1f11d9a046d7f3367e4a563a73f
raised the dependency on GTK+ to 3.9.10 which isn't available in Ubuntu 12.04.

[wolkym]

@hferreiro thanks for the information
@bsclifton who can be responsible to add the requirement in the deb file for libgtk-3-dev to be at least 3.9.10?

[bsclifton]

@posix4e would you be able to help me update the requirements (per the above)? 😄

[posix4e]

Yea that should be fine. I'll try to get to it soon.