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Pidgin undefined symbol error gst_registry_fork_set_enabled after update solution

06/23/09

  10:24:00 pm by wdawe, Categories: General, centos, linux , Tags: pidgin centos

Let me guess, you updated Pidgin because you couldn't connect to Yahoo Messenger anymore and now it won't work at all. If you try to start the program from a console you get the following message pidgin: symbol lookup error: pidgin: undefined symbol: gst_registry_fork_set_enabled

That's what happened to me, the fix was simple, update gstreamer and gstreamer plugins to the latest version. Running "yum update gstreamer*" got me new versions of gstreamer, gstreamer-tools, gstreamer-plugins-base and gstreamer-plugins-good.

I'm running Centos 5 but I suspect others including Redhat EL5 users are running into the same problem, I hope this helps.

19 comments

Comment from: nkhl [Visitor]

hi that really helped thx

06/24/09 @ 11:31
Comment from: Billa [Visitor]

Thanks a lot :)

06/25/09 @ 21:19
Comment from: sudha [Visitor]

It works now. Thanks a lot !

06/25/09 @ 21:40
Comment from: Kevyn [Visitor]

I found this by Googling…seems an easier fix

Click on the “Advanced” tab and paste the following line in the “Pager server” field…

cn.scs.msg.yahoo.com

Works like a charm

06/28/09 @ 23:36
Comment from: Dave Z [Visitor]

thanks very much for the recipe to fix this. I had to download all 4 rpms separately and install them but it worked!

daan> sudo rpm -U gstreamer-tools-0.10.20-3.el5.i386.rpm
daan> sudo rpm -U gstreamer-0.10.20-3.el5.i386.rpm
daan> sudo rpm -U gstreamer-plugins-base-0.10.20-3.el5.i386.rpm
daan> sudo rpm -U gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.9-1.el5_3.1.i386.rpm

06/30/09 @ 21:29
Comment from: helikaon [Visitor]

Thanks a lot, running centos on my ntb too, but still 5.2 (lots added and compiled sw to kernel so lazy tu update to 5.3) and this was quick fix to my pidgin problem.
Thanks a lot man! :.)

07/05/09 @ 13:52
Comment from: Devraj Singh [Visitor]

thanks for ur help

07/17/09 @ 11:12
Comment from: Abhilash:S.V [Visitor]

Great..! Thank you for your help…. :)

08/10/09 @ 06:08
Comment from: LJ [Visitor]

Thanks so much , this worked perfectly !

08/26/09 @ 11:25
Comment from: prasad [Visitor]

That fix worked like magic, thanks a lot Dawe :)

08/27/09 @ 08:02
Comment from: Kevin Smith [Visitor]

Awesome blog posting, thanks a ton! :)

09/02/09 @ 21:44
Comment from: Monica [Visitor]

Thank you! It saved me a lot of time.

10/02/09 @ 09:38
Comment from: Ruwinda Fernando [Visitor]  

Thank you very much. It did the trick for me.

10/03/09 @ 17:32
Comment from: Jin [Visitor]

It worked.. Thanks a lot !!

10/14/09 @ 14:08
Comment from: Bitwise [Visitor]

Your kung-fu is mighty.

10/22/09 @ 23:57
Comment from: Sony [Visitor]

Thanks! this helped :)

11/10/09 @ 08:50
Comment from: Fatima [Visitor]

I agree with Bitwise, you’re a Ninja =)

11/30/09 @ 20:47
Comment from: tadd [Visitor]

Thank you for your help

12/30/09 @ 08:25
Comment from: mixmasteralan [Visitor]

wow… you simply read my mind… thanks!

01/04/10 @ 18:43


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