I found the reason and the fix: I had several old (2010) libgdal* files (including libgdal.so.*) in /usr/local/lib masking the new ones in /usr/lib Deleting (actually moving them to another directory just in case) the ones in /usr/local/lib makes a clean start up of qgis.
Agus 2012/7/25 Agustin Lobo <alobolis...@gmail.com>: > Using qgis 1.8 on ubuntu 10.04 > I've upgraded to python-gdal 1.9 and the GdalTools plugin and some others > complain at qgis start-up: > > > Couldn't load plugin openlayers due an error when calling its > classFactory() method > > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/qgis/utils.py", line 164, in > startPlugin > plugins[packageName] = package.classFactory(iface) > File "/home/alobo/.qgis//python/plugins/openlayers/__init__.py", > line 48, in classFactory > from openlayers_plugin import OpenlayersPlugin > File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/qgis/utils.py", line 309, in _import > mod = _builtin_import(name, globals, locals, fromlist, level) > File "/home/alobo/.qgis//python/plugins/openlayers/openlayers_plugin.py", > line 35, in > from openlayers_ovwidget import OpenLayersOverviewWidget > File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/qgis/utils.py", line 309, in _import > mod = _builtin_import(name, globals, locals, fromlist, level) > File "/home/alobo/.qgis//python/plugins/openlayers/openlayers_ovwidget.py", > line 28, in > import bindogr > File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/qgis/utils.py", line 309, in _import > mod = _builtin_import(name, globals, locals, fromlist, level) > File "/home/alobo/.qgis//python/plugins/openlayers/bindogr.py", line 1, in > from osgeo import ogr, osr > File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/qgis/utils.py", line 309, in _import > mod = _builtin_import(name, globals, locals, fromlist, level) > File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/osgeo/__init__.py", line 21, in > _gdal = swig_import_helper() > File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/osgeo/__init__.py", line 17, > in swig_import_helper > _mod = imp.load_module('_gdal', fp, pathname, description) > ImportError: /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/osgeo/_gdal.so: symbol > VSIFTruncateL, version GDAL_1.8 not defined in file libgdal.so.1 with > link time reference > > Python version: > 2.6.5 (r265:79063, Apr 16 2010, 14:15:55) > [GCC 4.4.3] > > I had circumvented this issue by forcin python-gdal 1.8, but this > version is no longer available. > > Any solution to this problem? > > Thanks > > Agus _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user