Modem manager dies with "undefined symbol: mm_gdbus_modem_signal_skeleton_get_type"

[Daniele Palmas]

Hi all,

2015-03-09 18:04 GMT+01:00 Aleksander Morgado <aleksander at aleksander.es>:
> On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 5:45 PM, Daniele Palmas <dnlplm at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Dan,
>>
>> 2015-03-09 17:21 GMT+01:00 Dan Williams <dcbw at redhat.com>:
>>> On Mon, 2015-03-09 at 17:11 +0100, Daniele Palmas wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> I cloned the project from the git repository, built master and run the binary
>>>> with root permissions.
>>>>
>>>> After having properly recognized the modem, ModemManager dies with the
>>>> following message:
>>>>
>>>> ModemManager_bak[6292]: <info>  [1425914691.997399]
>>>> [mm-device.c:520]mm_device_create_modem(): Creating modem with plugin
>>>> 'Telit' and '6' ports
>>>> /usr/local/sbin/ModemManager_bak: symbol lookup error:
>>>> /usr/local/sbin/ModemManager_bak: undefined symbol:
>>>> mm_gdbus_modem_signal_skeleton_get_type
>>>
>>> Could there be an older libmm-glib lying around somewhere that's getting
>>> linked in, instead of the one from git master?  If you're building git
>>> master, you'll need to make sure that both the plugins and libmm-glib
>>> are installed in the right place on the system, since I'm not sure that
>>> just running the libtool wrapper will always work...
>>>
>>
>> Thanks for the hint. I will check and let you know.
>>
>
> If you compiled from git master without using a specific --prefix, the
> installation would get everything under /usr/local. Or if you used a
> prefix, the installation would get everything under that prefix. Just
> make sure that when running the new ModemManager you also explicitly
> specify where the new libmm-glib library is available, e.g.:
>
> $ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib /usr/local/sbin/ModemManager --debug
>
> If you want to nuke any other previous system-installed library (at
> your own risk) just use --prefix=/usr
>
> --
> Aleksander
> https://aleksander.es

Thanks, with your explanations I was able to solve my issue.

Regards,
Daniele