I had this problem but with a different program. In my case it was the 'zenity' program failing to load after an upgrade resulting in the system failing to boot. The workaround suggested in https://bugs.launchpad.net/timeshift/+bug/1516255 worked for me.
The problem seems to be a manual installation of Google's protobuf conflicting with libmirprotobuf. I fixed it by uninstalling Google's protobuf (by removing all relevant looking things from /usr/local/lib and /usr/local/include) and then reinstalling libmirprotobuf (which is libmirprotobuf3 on Ubuntu 16.10). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to mir in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1527137 Title: libmirprotobuf.so.3: undefined symbol: _ZNK6google8protobuf11MessageLite25InitializationErrorStringB5cxx11Ev Status in Mir: Invalid Status in mir package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: After probably updating Ubuntu 15.10 packages, I unable to launch software like evolution and virt-manager $ evolution evolution: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libmirprotobuf.so.3: undefined symbol: _ZNK6google8protobuf11MessageLite25InitializationErrorStringB5cxx11Ev $ virt-manager ** (process:3051): WARNING **: Failed to load shared library 'libgtk-3.so.0' referenced by the typelib: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libmirprotobuf.so.3: undefined symbol: _ZNK6google8protobuf11MessageLite25InitializationErrorStringB5cxx11Ev ** (process:3051): WARNING **: Failed to load shared library 'libgdk-3.so.0' referenced by the typelib: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux- gnu/libmirprotobuf.so.3: undefined symbol: _ZNK6google8protobuf11MessageLite25InitializationErrorStringB5cxx11Ev $ dpkg -l | grep libmirprotobuf3 ii libmirprotobuf3:amd64 0.17.0+15.10.20151008.2-0ubuntu1 amd64 Display server for Ubuntu - RPC definitions lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 15.10 Release: 15.10 Codename: wily To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/mir/+bug/1527137/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
