Gnome Pooched after glib / gtk upgrade....

[Bill Campbell]

On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 11:57:15PM +1100, James McDonald wrote:
>Folks,
>
>I just compiled and installed the following libs and there dependencies 
>on rh8.0
>
>gtk+-2.2.1
>glib-2.2.1
>
>I needed them to compile dia 0.91 (great drawing program that now has 
>cisco shapes woo hoo)
>
>I used ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc for all libs.
>
>Now I get as a standard muppet user....
>
>(gnome-background-properties:24030): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: cannot 
>create instance of abstract (non-instantiatable) type `GtkWidget'
>
>As root I can launch the gnome-*-* applets without the complaint and no 
>segfault...

Did you run ldconfig after building the new libraries?  Are then
libraries in the normal place?

Bill
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