I have this problem as well and both reinstalling (automatically) and purging and reinstalling (manually) didn't work. This happened to me right after the update of my Kubuntu to 16.04. Any suggestions?
-- 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, IĀ 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