Gedit error for non sudo - undefined symbol: cairo_surface_set_device_scale (undefined symbol: cairo_surface_set_device_scale)

Question

for some reason I am unable to run gedit as a normal user. I get the following error:

heberto@heberto-XPS-13:~$ gedit 
gedit: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgdk-3.so.0: undefined symbol: cairo_surface_set_device_scale

On the other hand when I read the command with sudo there is no problem and things run as usual. Same deal for emacs.

I have Ubuntu 14.04, any suggestions?

score 2 · Answer 1 · edited Nov 07 '16 at 07:00

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I met this problem, when I add /home/silva/anaconda/lib to LD_LIBARY_PATH before /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ in ~/.bashrc. Many software failed to start after that.

I removed /home/silva/anaconda/lib, and source ~/.bashrc again, solved.

edited Nov 07 '16 at 07:00

Anwar

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answered Nov 07 '16 at 06:21

silva

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 09 '16 at 13:24

This does not solve the question in full but my particular problem arose from installing neuron with the debian installer that they provide. Removing the following from .bashrc file did the job (and of course now I can not access neuron but I do not need it anymore)

# Neuron
# export PYTHONHOME="/home/heberto/miniconda2"
# export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/home/heberto/miniconda2/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"

score 0 · Answer 3 · edited Apr 30 '18 at 10:59

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you should update the cairo library.

conda update cairo

edited Apr 30 '18 at 10:59

derHugo

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answered Apr 29 '18 at 11:52

hemant

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Gedit error for non sudo - undefined symbol: cairo_surface_set_device_scale (undefined symbol: cairo_surface_set_device_scale)

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