My EeePC Blog: File Manager

Many people have complained about this problem that after applying the printer update from Asus, File Manager will close automatically when you right click a file or directory to view its properties.

I have also experienced this problem on the EeePC Linux I have installed to my desktop since I updated it from 701 4G to version 1.6. I have not paid much attention to it before but due to certain practical need, I need to get this fixed tonight.

After some checking, I have located the problem to be due to undefined symbol in /usr/lib/libpropdlg.so.3:

XandrosFileManager: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libpropdlg.so.3: undefined symbol: _Z13SqueezeStringPKcj

Further tracking this down, this library is symbolically linked to the library /usr/lib/libpropdlg.so.3.0.0 and is part of the package xandros-libpropdlg which is further updated by "Asus Update" after I upgraded to version 1.6:

/home/user> dpkg -S /usr/lib/libpropdlg.so.3.0.0
xandros-libpropdlg: /usr/lib/libpropdlg.so.3.0.0

The installed version is found to be 4.0.492-1:

/home/user> dpkg -l xandros-libpropdlg
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name                      Version                   Description
+++-=========================-=========================-======================================
ii  xandros-libpropdlg        4.0.492-1                 Xandros PROPDLG Library

By force downgrading this package to version 4.0.398-2 with synaptic, I have managed to get this problem fixed.

Below are screenshots of how I do this in synaptic: