Kubuntu Certain Programs Become Unoperable After Update?

Question

After performing an sudo apt update && sudo apt dist-upgrade on Kubuntu 17.04, all of my browsers won't open when they are clicked. Upon further inspection in terminal, they all seem to have the same error message relating to g_log_structured Other than that, everything else seems fine. How can I fix this issue?

sarah@ConvergentRefuge:~$ firefox /usr/lib/firefox/firefox: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgtk-3.so.0: undefined symbol: g_log_structured sarah@ConvergentRefuge:~$ chromium-browser Using PPAPI flash. --ppapi-flash-path=/usr/lib/adobe-flashplugin/libpepflashplayer.so -- ppapi-flash-version= /usr/lib/chromium-browser/chromium-browser --ppapi-flash- path=/usr/lib/adobe-flashplugin/libpepflashplayer.so --ppapi-flash- version=26.0.0.131 --enable-pinch: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgtk-3.so.0: undefined symbol: g_log_structured

Edit 0: Upon further research, it appears that this may be a problem with glib Link to g_log_structured(https://developer.gnome.org/glib/stable/glib-Message-Logging.html#g-log-structured)

Please don't post terminal output as a screenshot. Post it is text. — Pilot6, Jul 06 '17 at 21:37
I'm not sure why you'd do a dist-upgrade on 17.04. You might find this informative. — Elder Geek, Jul 06 '17 at 22:26
@ElderGeek Shouldn't dist-upgrade be more useful since it removes obsolete packages? — Sarah Szabo, Jul 07 '17 at 00:46
@SarahSzabo That depends on whether you are using something that requires those obsolete packages. — Elder Geek, Jul 07 '17 at 02:48

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 07 '17 at 01:28

Turns out the update had nothing to do with this particular issue. As pointed out in the question glib was causing the issue. I went to their Launchpad and downloaded the latest glib tar.xy for my version of Kubuntu and compiled and installed it. This solved the issue.

Kubuntu Certain Programs Become Unoperable After Update?

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