From kfm-devel  Fri Oct 22 20:54:17 1999
From: "Silas S. Brown" <ssb22 () cam ! ac ! uk>
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 20:54:17 +0000
To: kfm-devel
Subject: Bug#2192: "Wrong JPEG library version" crash
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kfm-devel&m=94062621030943


Package: kfm, kdmdesktop, possibly others
Version: 1.1.2 (the deb distribution)

Whenever kfm or kdmdesktop try to display a JPEG, they crash with the following
message:

Wrong JPEG library version: library is 62, caller expects 61

This happens, for example, if you go to any web page containing JPEGs.
It also happens if you try to load a JPEG file as wallpaper with kdmdesktop.
The KFM problem is particularly serious, since it crashes ALL of kfm.

The Debian packages on my system (apt-cache dump) contain libjpeg62, but not
libjpeg61.

I upgraded my kfm from 1.1.1 to 1.1.2 for the bugfixes, but I didn't upgrade
the whole of KDE because, when I had previously attempted this, I ran into the
same JPEG problem with kdmdesktop.  Now I've got a kfm that crashes whenever
you point it at a web page that happens to contain a Jpeg.  Helllllppppp!

I don't understand the problem.  I can undrstand "library is 61, but caller
expects 62", but why can't the 62 library be backward-compatible with 61?

At any rate, is there anything I can do that does not involve upgrading to
the latest unstable build and compiling it myself?  (which I am completely
useless at; I can install Debian packages and copy binary files, that's all!
Sorry to be so naive.)

Best wishes, Silas