Gnome Pooched after glib / gtk upgrade....

[Net Llama!]

On 03/23/03 04:57, 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 remove gtk/glib-1.2.x when you installed the 2.2.1 versions?  i 
suspect that your gnome install might need the older versions.

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